[c-nsp] Console server trouble -> wrong pins on cable?

[Bruce Pinsky]

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Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
> Hello colleagues,
> 
> I've managed to configure my CISCO1601R's serial port as async-port in a
> teminal/console-server-mode. Attached to the port is a CAB-232FC (DCE
> FEMALE)-cable and an adaptor from 25 to 9 pins (or something like that.).
> This allows me to connect an ordinary pc's serial port to the 1601R and
> login via the serial console.
> For example Linux running mgetty works fine at 9600,8,N,1.
> 
> My PROBLEM is that I can't login to a let's say the serial port of a switch.
> Is it necessary to change anything on the pins of the cable or can I treat
> it as if it was an ordinary pc-serial-port that is being connected to a
> switch?
> 
> Your help is being appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> The config on my 1601R is:
> line 1
>  session-timeout 10 
>  location Zum-seriellen-Port
>  exec-timeout 0 0
>  timeout login response 15
>  flush-at-activation
>  session-limit 1
>  login local
>  modem InOut
>  special-character-bits 8
>  no exec
>  transport preferred none
>  transport input telnet
>  transport output none
>  telnet break-on-ip
>  telnet ip-on-break
>  stopbits 1
> 

The console port of which model switch?  Not all console ports are pinned
the same unfortunately.

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