Cable question

-prophet-

I have just bought two 2501 routers including power cables and console to serial cables.

I have however also noticed a cable in the box called "X.21 DTE" with a 15pin serial end to a 60pin end (the same size as the serial). Can anyone shed some light to what this is for?

My goal is to link the routers like in the technotes but I see that the example uses two V.35 DTE/DCE's.

Cheers,
Prophet

keenon

your going to need a 60 pin to 60 pin DCE to DTE. you can order these from ebay pretty cheap

EdTheLad

Just some extra info to answer your question.This X.21 DTE cable is used to connect to a modem or mux.The 2501 router you have is used at the edge of a network and is connected to the backbone via the X.21 DTE cable.Since you are using this router for your lab and require to connect 2 routers back to back, you can buy another cable X.21 DCE to join to your original x.21 DTE cable to, and hence have 2 V.35 connectors or simply you can do what most of us here do.Go to ebay and buy a V.35 DCE-DTE cable.

-prophet-

OK, thanks a lot!

Here in Germany it isn't so easy to find good value cables on ebay, however, I have found the following: DB60 to DB60 Crossover DTE to DCE cable, it sounds like what you both were talking about, will this do the trick?

Cheers,
Prophet

Webmaster

Yes, that'll do it.