Serial port, Pin Description | Nortel Networks 1100, 1050, 1010

Nortel Networks 1100, 1050, 1010 Serial port, 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet port pinouts, Pin Description

Appendix A Technical specifications 43

•10BASE-T connections can use Category 3, 4, or 5 twisted-pair wiring.

Table 14 provides the 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet port pinouts for the system ports on the VPN Router 1100.

Table 14 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet port pinouts

	Pin	Description
TX+ TX- RX+ RX-	1	TX +
12345678	2	TX -
	2	TX -
	3	RX +
	6	RX -
CS260010A

Serial port

The system board provides a serial port on the front of the VPN Router 1010, 1050, and 1100 to enable out-of-band management of the gateway. The serial cable provided with the VPN Router 1010, 1050, and 1100 is an RJ-45-to-DB9 cable (Figure 15 on page 44). The RJ-45 connector goes into the VPN Router 1010, 1050, or 1100, and the DB9 connector goes into your workstation.

Caution: Use this cable to connect a PC or modem to the VPN Router 1010/1050/1100. Do not use this cable to attach a PC or modem to any other VPN Router device.

Nortel VPN Router Installation — VPN Router 1010/1050/1100

1010, 1050, 1100 specifications

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