DTE/DCE Crossover Cables

Hi, was wondering a quick question - im looking to buy the cable below to use with 2600s and 1700s with WIC-1ts and was wondering how many do you usually need?

thanks!!!

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kryolla

well how many wic1t cards do you have

blackninja

CiscoGreek wrote: »

Hi, was wondering a quick question - im looking to buy the cable below to use with 2600s and 1700s with WIC-1ts and was wondering how many do you usually need?

thanks!!!

You will need 1 cable for every pair of serials ports up are connnecting together.

e.g. 2 routers each with 2 wic-1t cards - therfore you wil need 2 cables

captobvious

CiscoGreek wrote: »

Hi, was wondering a quick question - im looking to buy the cable below to use with 2600s and 1700s with WIC-1ts and was wondering how many do you usually need?

thanks!!!

Really? How many cables to make a serial link? this has to be a joke!

CiscoGreek

LOL what i meant was how many serial connections would i need to emulate? i know i need one per set of routers... from peoples previous experience how many serial connections did you ever setup during CCNA.. i think thats better wording!

blackninja

CiscoGreek wrote: »

LOL what i meant was how many serial connections would i need to emulate? i know i need one per set of routers... from peoples previous experience how many serial connections did you ever setup during CCNA.. i think thats better wording!

Depends on what lab you building,. For CCNA the most I use in a single lab is for frame relay, using 3 routers and the cloud - 3 cables.

But my lab at home i use five - four routers in FR and a p2p link

captobvious

blackninja wrote: »

Depends on what lab you building,. For CCNA the most I use in a single lab is for frame relay, using 3 routers and the cloud - 3 cables.

But my lab at home i use five - four routers in FR and a p2p link

+1

It depends on the network you're trying to lab up!