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BRI back-to-back cable pinout?
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| Ghazan Haider 2003-08-24, 6:24 am |
| I have been searching this over the newsgroups, routerie.com forum and
cisco.com but cant find any details on it...
I have two 2503 routers and would like to connect their BRI ports
together. They are RJ-45 ports. I have tried straight-through ethernet
patch cables and another cable from Hanseng Bae's FAQ's link that
swaps 4 and 5 pins with 3 and 7. Neither cable gives the famous 'line
up' message on the console that you get when you plug in ethernet,
tokenring or serial cables. I cannot verify the connection since I'm
just learning about ISDN and uncertainity of the cable is getting in
the way.
Can someone please verify if the cable to be used is patch
straightthrough or 4->3 5->7 and where in the world is this
information officially provided (or did Cisco leave this as an
exercise to the admin?)
Will appreciate it!
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| Simon Marsden 2003-08-24, 7:25 am |
| Only pins 3,4,5 and 6 are use in a ISDN BRI S/T RJ-45 pinout.
So in theory, a crossed cable should be 3-4,4-3,5-6,6-5.
But that said, I always thought you need an ISDN simulator to provide TEI
and the Q921 signalling etc...
This link refers to 1600 series, but it's the same technology.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td...d/1600/1600icg/
cabl.htm#15448
"Ghazan Haider" <ghazan@ghazan.haider.name> wrote in message
news:2f57764a.0308240212.6a833ec@posting.google.com...
> I have been searching this over the newsgroups, routerie.com forum and
> cisco.com but cant find any details on it...
>
> I have two 2503 routers and would like to connect their BRI ports
> together. They are RJ-45 ports. I have tried straight-through ethernet
> patch cables and another cable from Hanseng Bae's FAQ's link that
> swaps 4 and 5 pins with 3 and 7. Neither cable gives the famous 'line
> up' message on the console that you get when you plug in ethernet,
> tokenring or serial cables. I cannot verify the connection since I'm
> just learning about ISDN and uncertainity of the cable is getting in
> the way.
>
> Can someone please verify if the cable to be used is patch
> straightthrough or 4->3 5->7 and where in the world is this
> information officially provided (or did Cisco leave this as an
> exercise to the admin?)
>
> Will appreciate it!
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| Hansang Bae 2003-08-24, 6:27 pm |
| In article <2f57764a.0308240212.6a833ec@posting.google.com>,
ghazan@ghazan.haider.name says...
> I have been searching this over the newsgroups, routerie.com forum and
> cisco.com but cant find any details on it...
>
> I have two 2503 routers and would like to connect their BRI ports
> together. They are RJ-45 ports. I have tried straight-through ethernet
> patch cables and another cable from Hanseng Bae's FAQ's link that
> swaps 4 and 5 pins with 3 and 7. Neither cable gives the famous 'line
> up' message on the console that you get when you plug in ethernet,
> tokenring or serial cables. I cannot verify the connection since I'm
> just learning about ISDN and uncertainity of the cable is getting in
> the way.
The FAQ is talking about T1 cables. Recent IOS can only simulate PRI
switches. So there is no way to make a BRI setup work with a cross over
cable.
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hsb
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| Ghazan Haider 2003-08-24, 10:30 pm |
| Hi Bae,
someone sent me this on email:
You will need a ISDN switch of some kind, the BRI ports on a 25xx is
client-side
+onlyand need further equipment to make connections, there are a
number of
+ISDN-network emulators outthere, one name that comes to mind is
"Emutel"
and you mentioned recent (12.1?) IOSes can emulate ISDN switches.
Lemme go check if I can do that. I'll try straight cables first and
post the result here if I'm successful.
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| Hansang Bae 2003-08-25, 1:27 am |
| In article <2f57764a.0308241802.485df0f2@posting.google.com>,
ghazan@ghazan.haider.name says...
> Hi Bae,
> someone sent me this on email:
>
> You will need a ISDN switch of some kind, the BRI ports on a 25xx is
> client-side
> +onlyand need further equipment to make connections, there are a
> number of
> +ISDN-network emulators outthere, one name that comes to mind is
> "Emutel"
>
> and you mentioned recent (12.1?) IOSes can emulate ISDN switches.
> Lemme go check if I can do that. I'll try straight cables first and
> post the result here if I'm successful.
Again...it'll emulate *PRI* only. You're out of luck for BRI.
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| Ghazan Haider 2003-08-25, 10:28 am |
| > Again...it'll emulate *PRI* only. You're out of luck for BRI.
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Can you not connect a BRI to PRI using only 1 or 2 of the PRI's
channels?
Last night I ordered ISDN Internet for a month anyway, will run
webservers on it. Beats an ISDN emulator. Only after I ordered it, I'm
beginning to check if it can run in parallel with my DSL and wondering
what my SPIDs are. Line protocol is consistently down, so I suspect my
phone line doesnt support ISDN.
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