Cabling standards [7:38540]

Hi can anyone provide a brief but simple explanation of the cabling standards involved. The reason I am asking is that I have 2 cisco routers a 2524 and a 2501 with DB-60 interfaces. At this time I need to connect them together to simulate a point-to-point connection. I was wondering what cable wo

Re: Cabling standards [7:38540]

Vik, you need a db-60 to db-60 DCE/DTE cable to connect the two routers back to back. A DCE/DTE cable is wired so that one end is recognized as DTE equipment and the other end is wired to be recognized as DTE equipment. You can check which end is connected to an interface by using the command