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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