Need Sun RJ-45 console cable

Tue Nov 26 10:36:52 PST 2002

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:06:15AM -0800, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> 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  (My FEHB is way out of date.)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

If you have a cisco with an aux port or any other serial port you can
use (RJ45 type), just use the blue or black rolled cable (pin 1 to 8,
pin 2 to 7, etc.)

Works like a charm for Suns with RJ45 consoles.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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