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Appendix C Cabling Specifications
Console and Auxiliary Port Cables and Pinouts
Figure C-1 .) If your cable was purchased from Cisco Systems, pin 1 will be white on one connector, and
pin 8 will be white on the other connector (a rollover cable reverses pins 1 and 8, 2 and 7, 3 and 6, and
4 and 5).
Figure C-1 Identifying a Rollover Cable
Console Port Cables and Pinouts
Use the RJ-45-to-RJ-45 rollover cable and RJ-45-to-DB-9 female DTE adapter (labeled TERMINAL) to
connect the console port to a PC running terminal emulation software.
Figure C-2 shows how to connect
the console port to a PC. Table C-1 lists the pinouts for the asynchronous serial console port, the
RJ-45-to-RJ-45 rollover cable, and the RJ-45-to-DB-9 female DTE adapter (labeled TERMINAL).
Figure C-2 Connecting the Console Port to a PC
Pin 1 Pin 8
H3824
Pin 1 and pin 8
should be the
same color
Table C-1 Console Port Signaling and Cabling Using a DB-9 Adapter
Console Port (DTE) RJ-45-to-RJ-45 Rollover Cable
RJ-45-to-DB-9
Terminal Adapter Console
Device
Signal RJ-45 Pin RJ-45 Pin DB-9 Pin Signal
RTS 1 1 8 8 CTS
DTR 2 7 6 DSR
TxD 3 6 2 RxD
GND 4 5 5 GND
PC
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RJ-45-to-RJ-45
rollover cable
RJ-45-to-DB-9 adapter
(labeled TERMINAL)
Universal gateway