On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > I know what you mean ! In my recent project, I had 3 different Sun > servers requiring 3 different console cables. The Netra console cable is > the most easily acquired, because it is the same as the Cisco console > cable. The other 2 had to be fabricated manually. > > What you can do is, try to borrow one from your network engineer (or any > network engineer friends), because you only need it for the initial OS > install. After that, you just use Exceed to connect to the box via a > cross-over cable and you can do the configuration, etc. on it. If you > want, I can see if I can buy one here and send it over to you. But I > think it may be cheaper (and faster) to order it in the US on Cisco's > website or eBay, or the neighbourhood computer shop.
Thanks for the offer, but i'm sure i can find one around here. Hell, Cisco's corporate headquarters are a 10 minute drive from where i work. Can you explain one thing though? Why do i need the Cisco cable for the OS install, but a crossover is good enough afterwards? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
