Need Sun RJ-45 console cable

Tue Nov 26 10:28:55 PST 2002

It's a cisco pinned connector.  Easy enough.
I took a T3 disk array with a zero doc RJ-11(!) console.  Crimped
wires into a plug and shoved them into pins 2 and 3 of a nearby
serial port to get it to work.  I had always wondered why Sun DB-25
serial ports were female.  Now I know.  Try it and frighten your
co-workers.

Quoting Jim Hickstein (jxh at jxh.com):
> A Sun Fire V120 showed up at my site, naturally with zero supporting cables 
> or documentation.  Naturally, it doesn't respond to ping.  Can anyone loan 
> me an X6973A Serial Connector Kit for a week or so, until the owners of the 
> machine can send their copy from France?
> 
> It appears in:
> 
>  http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireV120/components.html#E
> XPL
> 
> but I'd be grateful for any other information from those who have 
> experience with Sun's new foray into using everyone's favorite connector to 
> overload yet another function onto it.  Does it use the same pinout as 
> anyone _else's_ RS-232 mapping?  Cisco, say, or Digi?  What are the chances 
> I can go straight into a Digi console server?  (Yeah, right.)  Is it a DTE 
> or a DCE?  Is the pinout documented anywhere?  (My FEHB is way out of date.)
> 
> Thanks for any info and/or parts.
> 
> -Jim