[SunHELP] serial cable

Brian Hechinger sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Jul 16 19:12:20 CDT 2001


On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:29:10AM -0700, Steve Wingate wrote:
> Your answer threw me completely. If I have a terminal connector on the

sorry about that. :)

> PC and a MODEM CAB-5MODCM connector on the Sun box what type of cable do
> I need in the middle?

straight through.  you only want one "twist" per cable, the terminal connector
is twisted, so the other two need to be straight through.

-brian

ps: there is always the "plug in every combination until you get it to work
method, but that's annoying *G*"



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