Comments on: Accessing the SunFire V100 LOM Serial Console

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:25:41 +0000

You can connect using PuTTY too, which is probably the most standard tool for this on Windows today. Same settings as above.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:09:06 +0000

Yeah, “straight” double ended isn’t what people think that it is. RJ45 is just the connector on the end. CAT5 and CAT6 are a specific standard and not all cables with RJ45 ends have the same configuration and the “standard” is not “straight.” A straight cable would not work with the normal adapters.

By: Cableguy

Cableguy — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:31:58 +0000

I think what he meant was you can buy an adapter (sorry, don’t have the Sun P/N) that is DB9 female to RJ45. You plug this into your PC serial port and then you can run straight double-ended RJ45 cable to your server. The adapters are about 3 bucks if you look around

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:48:48 +0000

That is true if you are connecting to a terminal server like those from Cisco or Uplogix. But I am connecting directly to a DB9 serial connector on a Linux workstation and there is no such thing as a “standard” RJ45 to DB9 cable. So the cables are specially made to be the right wire combination for the console to the serial connector on the PC.

By: ryanov

ryanov — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:04:30 +0000

You don’t even need a cable, just an adapter for one end.