Cisco serial connections help

WasteTimeChangingCars · 12 Mar 2011 at 14:53

I’m not sure what cable type to get to connect my three cisco 2600 series routers for serial connections. I have two 1t wic cards and 1 2t wic card I have found two cables but I’m not sure what one I need

http://www.dantrak.co.uk/item/54

http://www.dantrak.co.uk/item/57

Chief Wiggum · 12 Mar 2011 at 16:39

you'll need a 1T cable - DTE>DCE crossover - you can pick them up from certain auction sites for not a lot

Skidilliplop · 14 Mar 2011 at 14:21

In addition to the above. Router 1 is a 60pin DSUB type and router 2 is smart serial type. You can get one piece DCE-DTE crossover cables with one of each type of connector. Just beware which end you want to be DCE when you buy. This will affect on which interfaces you configure clocking.

Personally I tend to use the smart serial ends for DCE (clocking) and the 60pin ends for DTE, and hence I make sure the cables I buy are wired this way round. It doesn't have to be that way round but in lab setups keeping it consistent helps a lot in eradicating silly little Layer1 slip-ups

Laser402 · 14 Mar 2011 at 14:26

Skidilliplop said:
In addition to the above. Router 1 is a 60pin DSUB type and router 2 is smart serial type.

Going by the Labels on the routers.

Router 2 = DSUB 60 Pin Serial (1st router in the picture)
Router 1 = Smart Serial (2nd router in the picture)

Skidilliplop · 14 Mar 2011 at 14:32

Yep, my epic, epic bad.
See it's errors like that consistency in lab setups avoids. lol

ThorpedoUK · 18 Mar 2011 at 23:32

Did you get this working ok?

Nice pics btw!