[PLUG] Minicom & Cisco Routers

[Jason R. Martin]

On 10/25/05, Charlie Schluting <charlie at schluting.com> wrote:
> Vram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I finally downloaded minicom and set it up..
> >
> > And nothing happen..
>
> And to mention something I saw earlier.. there's no special cisco
> cables. Some devices require a nullmodem cable, but that's not special.
> if you have serial->cat5 converters, the easy thing to do is check to
> see if it says "console" or "terminal."

I think the "special cisco cable" referred to was a rollover cable,
which is used on newer Ciscos instead of a DB9 connector.  Rollover
cables ARE different than cat5 straight-through cables.

Jason