Homemade console cable

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone has actually made one. I'm in the mode to solder a couple of things and I have a couple of extra cat5 / db9 connectors hanging around the house.

I was checking out this site http://www.ossmann.com/5-in-1.html which has a lot of good information. Did anyone else attempt this?

Cheers

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Daniel333

Yep, took me three tries (first time with a soldering iron) but I made one. Also made cross over cables too. I feel you should probably do this, it was a good exercise.

fluk3d

I'll probably give'r a go tomorrow when I get my first router 2612

Turgon

I made console cables for my home lab when I didn't have enough cisco cables for my routers. Works fine. Be sure to get the correct pin outs.

fluk3d

let me rattle your brains for a sec below should be suffice to make the cable unless the pin outs I have are incorrect.

phreak

http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=pincabser_cisco_9

I've made my own console adapters before with a straight-through cable and a RJ-45 to DB9 converter. I did the roll-over inside the DB9 so you can use any straight-through cat5 cable with it.

Works great!

Although anymore I just pack the blue RJ45 to DB9 cable now though, as I have a whole messload of them.