Console wireing

crc32

I am studying for CCNA certification and got a hold of the the Wendell Oldom CCNA INTRO and ICND Exam Certification guide. Also I got a hold of an old 1604 router which seems pretty useless as its for ISDN and has a vacant optional WIC interface card (I need to get a hold of a 10baseT WIC card now). At any rate its even more useless as I seem to have no way that I know of to connect the console port my PC to consfigure the router. Sure I know how to crimp a rolled over cable but the books them selves make no mention of the fact that I'm gonna need some special adaptor to connect a Serial port to a rolled over RJ-45 type cable. I foolishly tried to connect a rolled cable directly to a PC but of course it didn't work. The books claim you can use telnet on the console port directly but really I would need a valid IP adress assigned to the interface on the router to even do that. I would really like to connect the console port to a NIC card on one of my computers to configure the router or at lease see the CLI.

My only tools are a few hubs and switches wire crimpers and whole lot of cat 5 cable. How do I go about accessing the console on this router?

Drakonblayde

well, you can use a rolled over RJ-45 as long as you have the serial adapters for both ends of the connection, and it should work fine....

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Check out the following for some more information:
www.techexams.net/techlabs/ccna/lab_hardware.shtml

Drakonblayde

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps214/products_installation_guide_book09186a008007e659.html

That's the install guide for the 1600 series routers.

If you've got a proper rollover, you should be able to plug one end into the router, and one end into a DB9/25 adapter, connect it to your box and get a console. I have a seen a small few routers with bad console ports, in which case you're out of luck, but if I had to guess, you might have just wired the cable wrong since you made it yourself.

tunerX

http://www.pccables.com/01910.htm

1.50 and you get to learn the pins for RS-232.

crc32

Drakonblayde wrote:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps214/products_installation_guide_book09186a008007e659.html

That's the install guide for the 1600 series routers.

If you've got a proper rollover, you should be able to plug one end into the router, and one end into a DB9/25 adapter, connect it to your box and get a console. I have a seen a small few routers with bad console ports, in which case you're out of luck, but if I had to guess, you might have just wired the cable wrong since you made it yourself.

I don't have a DB9/25 adaptor.