Improving on the 5-in-1 Network Admin’s Cable
I recently discovered Michael Ossman's 5-in-1 network admin's cable. Before this discovery, I built serial cables with the same DB9/RJ45 modular adapters, but never with a standard pinout so they could be interchanged, never with the hardware flow control lines plumbed, and certainly never as part of a multifunction cable. Ossman's system can even be expanded on; his article has an "Extras" section, and Jason McPherson wrote an article on building an ethernet and serial tap with the cable.
In this article, I describe how I changed the cable to meet my own needs better. I hope this is useful to others, too. Read the rest of this entry »
October 23rd, 2008 in
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