[geeks] NEEDED: terminal for my Suns...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 @ 15:21 -0700, Mike Murphy said:

> Cabling is ust an RJ-45 on each end of the light blue flat cable that's used
> for cisco consoles. That's all that's necessary for the T105's. LOM on the
> T1405 is the same, and the console for the T1405 uses a RJ45 female to DB-25
> converter, easy from eBay. You can get all the parts at Fry's or equivalent.

Parts like that are very hard to find where I live.

They are cheap enough online, but shipping brings the cost up.

This area has always had a lot of computers--in spite of basically being
a large swamp--but has never had much of a used market or parts for
them.

> >The cable bundle costs as much as the unit on ebay, and that gives you
> >RJ45 which you then have to convert to DB-25.
> 
> That's the cable bundle for a 2511 (16-port). The 2509 (8-port) has RJ-45's.
> Not so dense, but easier.

Well, I saw a 2509 for $20, and the cable part for it was $20, this my
comment about it being the same price. That's really not a problem, I
was just commenting that the cable setup will cost more than the unit
itself.

My exactly pain level depends on how many machines I'm currently
running. Right now only two servers are 24/7, so I'm in the "why spend
the money" state.

I'll hate it the next time I bring 2-3 more online and suddenly find I
need consoles... :)

> Only the T1405 console and the cisco 550x's need DB-25 in my setup and I had
> enough of those laying around from other cisco stuff that I didn't even need
> to go to Fry's. I end up using/losing the DE-9 adapters, but the DB-25
> adapters just keep accumulating like wire hangers in the closet.

RJ-45 is smaller, so I can see why they switched. Hopefully you can keep
the monkeys from cramming network cables into the RJ-45 serial ports.

> >Still, it is a lot smaller than my Portmaster.
> 
> I used to have trouble with Portmasters not having ears for rackmount. I
> think. It was a long time ago.
> 
> >Does it work really well?
> 
> telnet c2500_ip_address 200n

What I meant was does it give good speed without dropouts and other
issues.

With the Portmaster, I was never completely happy. OK as a console, but
when I tried to use a terminal through one for every day use, I found
problems with dropped characters, speed control, and control character
issues.

Not a big deal for consoles of course, but annoying.  It might be that I
just didn't spend enough time on it.

> Plus you get 2 synchronus serial interfaces for your pair of T1's at
> home ;-)

Oh yeah... ;)

First things first though: gotta get a terminal.

Actually, I'm thinking of boosting the buget a bit and trying to snag
about three of them.



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