Home lab Cabling Question

I have just got myself the following

two cisco 1601 routers
one catalyst 2900 switch.

i have a console cable for the router, but im just not sure how to connect these two routers togeather as wel as the switch. I have a X.21 DTE cable. One end of this cable has a connection for the serial 0 plug, and the other end has a connect that will fit into the yellow labled plug next to the 10baseT connection, which is ethernet 0 think, it also has an AUI lable above it.

So can i connect my two routers with this X.21 DTE cable and then plug my switch into the 10 BASE T connection and just telnet between the devices?

I understand i will need to configure IP addresses and passwords before i telnet between them but yea i just wanna know if the cable i have will work.

thanks!

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Comments

Danman32

You don't connect a serial interface to an ethernet interface. The 1601 has an RJ45 10baseT interface as well as an AUI interface for Ethernet. The serial interface is blue. You would connect this to the same interface on the other 1601 using appropriate cable. One should be a DCE, the other a DTE, though depending on what's at the other end of your serial cable, you may be able to use an adapter to simulate the DCE-DTE connection.

rakem

so i can connect the two routers using the AUI interface, then hook the switch up to the 10BASET interface?

mikej412

This link might help
http://www.techexams.net/techlabs/ccna/lab_hardware.shtml

Serial connections and ethernet connections do not mix.

rakem

yea i didnt think that it would...

so could i hook up the routers and switches like this?

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mwgood

You'll need to use a crossover cable if you go router to router.

Also, have you considered a crossover serial cable?

For example, http://www.ciscokits.com/cube/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=25

rakem

Actually yea that cross over serial cable would be much better, so that way that config would look like this:

and the 10BASET connection would be my: interface ethernet 0, right?

david_r

rakem,
You only have one ethernet interface, eth0. See the rectangle drawn around "10baset, Ethernet0, AUI"? It's signifying that is one port and you can use EITHER connector to connect to the eth0 interface.

rakem

david_r wrote:

rakem,
You only have one ethernet interface, eth0. See the rectangle drawn around "10baset, Ethernet0, AUI"? It's signifying that is one port and you can use EITHER connector to connect to the eth0 interface.

yes i understand that now... But in this diagram:

that configuration will work ok right, with my switch hookep up to the ethernet port and the two routers connected with a crossover serial cable?

darwinism

Yes. I have a simular setup at home.

rakem

brilliant, just got the cross over cable of ebay for 10 bucks!