No biggie Pete,
Of the dozen or so kits I've bought in the last year, they have all been
the same color combination, in fact so to the point that I just put them
together without even checking and they have always worked like a charm.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: RJ45 to serial DE-9
On Feb 6, 18:39, Curt Vendel wrote:
I was referring to the colors inside of the DB
hood, not the rj45 cable
itself which can vary from anything from orange, orange/white, green
green/white, blue blue/white, brown, brown/white for most cat5 cabling
The Cat.5 (and Cat3,4,5e,6) cables are required to be standard colours.
to the various
red,green,yellow,read,blue,white,brown,grey for others
like the
flat or silk cables from Cisco, and other
manufactures.
There is a USOC (I think) standard for those flat cables. If Cisco don't
follow it, they're buying cable from an odd place :-)
The two points I was making are (1) there is no standard for the colours
of
the cable inside the hood, so noting which colours go
to which pins isn't
a
good way to specify it, and (2) there's no
standard mapping of RJ45 pins
to
DE9 pins either.
There's a good chance what you wrote would work, as it *appears* to be one
of the common arrangements, at least as far as the Tx and Rx lines are
concerned, but there's also a good chance it won't.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York