Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V100 manual Connecting to Other Terminal Servers

■Connect the breakout cable directly to the Sun Fire V100 server.

■Connect the breakout cable to a patch panel and use the straight-through patch cable (supplied by Sun) to connect the patch panel to the server.

Connecting to Other Terminal Servers

For terminals from other manufacturers, check the documentation to see if the pinouts of the serial ports on the Sun Fire V100 server match those of the serial ports on your terminal server. If they do not, you need to make a crossover (null-modem) cable that takes each pin on the Sun Fire V100 server’s serial port to the corresponding pin in the terminal server’s serial port.

TABLE 3-6shows the crossovers that the cable must perform.

TABLE 3-6Pin Crossovers for Connecting to a Typical Terminal Server

Sun Fire V100 Serial Port (RJ-45 Connector) Pin Terminal Server Serial Port Pin

Pin 1 (RTS)		Pin 1 (CTS)
Pin 2 (DTR)		Pin 2 (DSR)
Pin 3 (TXD)		Pin 3 (RXD)
Pin 4 (Signal Ground)		Pin 4 (Signal Ground)
Pin 5	(Signal Ground)	Pin 5	(Signal Ground)
Pin 6	(RXD)	Pin 6	(TXD)
Pin 7	(DSR)	Pin 7	(DTR)
Pin 8	(CTS)	Pin 8	(RTS)

▼To Connect to a Sun Fire V100 Server Using a Terminal Server

1.Attach the appropriate crossover cables as described in “Connecting to a Cisco Terminal Server” on page 25 or “Connecting to Other Terminal Servers” on page 26.

2.Open a terminal session on the Sun workstation, and type:

#telnet IP-address-of-terminal-server port-number

26 Sun Fire V100 User’s Guide • December 2001