Straight thru yes but you still need to use the correct pins.  you
have the pin 2-3 correct, also 3-2 and 7-5.  On the DB25 you use 2,3 and
7, yellow, black and red.

  Dave

Black Jack wrote:
> 
> I just acquired a 4000 router and can't get it to respond through the
> console port. As usual in this case, I suspect I have a cable problem. I
> thought I needed a straight through DB9-DB25 modem cable, but it doesn't
> seem to work. I want to make sure I have the right cable before I start
> chasing other possibilities. Is this in fact the right cable? I have
> searched the archives and looked at several CCO links without a clear
answer
> (maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand what I'm reading :-)). What
> I'd really like is something ultra-simple, like "db-25 pin2 to db-9 pin3"
> and so on. Can anyone point that out to me? TIA.
-- 
David Madland
CCIE# 2016
Sr. Network Engineer
Qwest Communications
612-664-3367

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Winston
Churchill




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