No. I used a standard Category 5 patch cable.
Thanks - I am aware of the pinout of the Cisco rollover cables. Further, during this
investigation I was using an ohmmeter to check connections.
Jonathan
Tony van Ree wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did you use the "BLACK" Cisco cable? If so look at this. It has a roll over.
>1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 become 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 say using pins 3 & 6 for TXD RXD, 4 & 5 sig
>gnd, 2 and 6 for RTS, CTS or what ever you have a cross over in the cable.
>
> Teunis,
> Hobart, Tasmania
> Australia
>
> n Friday, January 19, 2001 at 01:57:30 PM, Jonathan Hays wrote:
>
> > I recently connected my Cisco terminal setup (a laptop with a DB9-RJ45
> > adapter on Serial A) to a UNIX workstation with the gender adapters
> > shown in the ASCII diagram below. I was surprised that it worked llike
> > this because I expected a crossover of TX and RX, but when I pulled the
> > adapters apart and followed the wires from end-to-end it appears there
> > is no crossover. Pin numbers shown are those stamped on the connectors.
> >
> > Laptop Workstation
> > DB9-RJ45 RJ45-DB25
> > tx 2 6 ---straight---6 2 tx
> > rx 3 3 ---through----3 3 rx
> > cable
> >
> > Shouldn't TX and RX cross over? Why does this work?
> >
> > Sorry about the slightly off-topic post.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
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