After almost two years without a toaster I've finally come out of the wilderness and am once again the proud "owner" (ok, admin) of a nice shiny new toaster. Pity they're not as shiny as they used to be in the Good Ol' Days :(
I'm trying to connect this beastie to a console server. Specifically a Linux box with a Cyclades Ze multiport serial card. The Cyclades presents its ports using an expansion box with RJ45 female ports.
I haven't been able to get this to talk to the toaster's console port :( I've tried various combinations of straight-through and null-modem adaptors with standard ethernet and roll-over drop cables with no joy.
Can anybody point me in the direction of the pinouts I need in a RJ45 - DB-9 adaptor that will work with a roll-over drop cable?
For reference, I've got the Cyclades ports talking to cisco kit (3600s) using a roll-over cable. I've also got them talking to Foundry switches using the same roll-over cable with an adaptor using the pinout below.
RJ45 DB-9 Signal Pinout Pinout Signal TxD 3 --------------------- 2 RxD RxD 6 --------------------- 3 TxD Gnd 4 --------------------- 5 Gnd
RTS 1 ----+ +----- 7 RTS CTS 5 ----+ +----- 8 CTS
DTR 2 ----+ +----- 4 DTR DCD 7 ----| |----- 1 DCD DSR 8 ----+ +----- 6 DSR
-Ronan
You should use an null-modem kable or X-tp cable trough RJ45 - DB-9, and make sure that you are using Software hand-shake, ie, xon-xoff.
I'm using this config and it works fine for me.
/erik
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ronan Mullally wrote:
After almost two years without a toaster I've finally come out of the wilderness and am once again the proud "owner" (ok, admin) of a nice shiny new toaster. Pity they're not as shiny as they used to be in the Good Ol' Days :(
I'm trying to connect this beastie to a console server. Specifically a Linux box with a Cyclades Ze multiport serial card. The Cyclades presents its ports using an expansion box with RJ45 female ports.
I haven't been able to get this to talk to the toaster's console port :( I've tried various combinations of straight-through and null-modem adaptors with standard ethernet and roll-over drop cables with no joy.
Can anybody point me in the direction of the pinouts I need in a RJ45 - DB-9 adaptor that will work with a roll-over drop cable?
For reference, I've got the Cyclades ports talking to cisco kit (3600s) using a roll-over cable. I've also got them talking to Foundry switches using the same roll-over cable with an adaptor using the pinout below.
RJ45 DB-9 Signal Pinout Pinout Signal TxD 3 --------------------- 2 RxD RxD 6 --------------------- 3 TxD Gnd 4 --------------------- 5 Gnd RTS 1 ----+ +----- 7 RTS CTS 5 ----+ +----- 8 CTS DTR 2 ----+ +----- 4 DTR DCD 7 ----| |----- 1 DCD DSR 8 ----+ +----- 6 DSR-Ronan
Hej Erik,
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Erik Ahlstrom wrote:
You should use an null-modem kable or X-tp cable trough RJ45 - DB-9, and make sure that you are using Software hand-shake, ie, xon-xoff.
I'm using this config and it works fine for me.
What's the spec for a null-modem cable? I've been using a roll-over cable which maps pins 1-8 onto 8-1 or a straight-through cable.
Is an X-tp the same as a cross-over ethernet cable? (ie swap 1, 2 and 3, 6)?
MvH,
-Ronan
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