On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 11:35 +0200, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:55:40PM -0700, Andrew Grimberg wrote:
> > Greetings folks,
> > 
> > Am I just blind or can I not find what type of null modem cable that I
> > need for heartbeat?  I've got several full-handshake cables that while I
> > can communicate in one direction, aren't working in the opposite
> > direction.  Anybody got a suggestion as to what type of null modem cable
> > I should be using?
> 
> Isn't there just one null modem cable, one which has crossed
> receive/send wires? AFAIK heartbeat doesn't require anything
> special.
> 
> BTW, what's a "full-handshake" cable?
> 
> Otherwise, not really an expert on hardware and cables.

There's 4 different pinouts for a null modem cable.  Here's a good
reference to all 4 of them:
http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232_null_modem.html

As for the reason behind the use of a full handshaking cable, it allows
for the highest speed communication.  The drawback of course is that it
doesn't support certain connection modes.  All is well now though that I
found out it was a bad cable job by yours truly.

-Andy-

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