On 05/16/2010 08:57 PM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> 
> On May 16, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Josh Koffman wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to use RJ45 connectors to carry the
>> RS232 signal. There is a standard for this (EIA-561, mentioned here
>> about 25% of the way down the page, but I've seen it elsewhere as
>> well) so I feel ok setting it up. I believe that the original intent
>> was to use telephone style cable with these RJ45 connectors. What
>> would happen if I used straight through CAT5 ethernet cable?
> 
> 
> You should be fine.  I've had people complain that the cisco RJ45  
> pinout that we designed ended up putting inappropriate signals on  

Cough*DEC*cough ;-)

I have several terminal servers that I use with lots of equipment
(mainly Cisco but my terminal servers are Xyplex). We've extended
the Cisco roll-0ver cables for about 100 feet with out problems
at 9600.

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