SeekingFire

Gord and I put together a Cisco lab. Quagga is great for the routing stuff, but it doesn't emulate switching at all.

We immediately ran into a problem when trying to connect the Cisco console ports to my Digi Portserver II/16: While both ends are RJ45, neither uses anything that could be described as a standard pin-out.

After a bit a of research, I discovered that a Cat5 cable wired as follows works for Cisco consoles. Note that the cable is directly -- the end labelled "Cisco" in the table must go to the Cisco unit, or the cable won't work. I recommend labelling the ends somehow.

Note that I use "w/" as an abbreviation for "White", "Bl" for "Blue", "Gr" for "Green", "Br" for "Brown", and "Or" for "Orange".