Cables and Pinouts
B-4
Console Port Pin Assignments
The DB-9 console port on the front panel of the access point is used to connect to the
access point for out-of-band console configuration. The command-line configuration
program can be accessed from a terminal, or a PC running a terminal emulation
program. The pin assignments and cable wiring used to connect to the console port are
provided in the following table.
Wiring Map for Serial Cable
10/100BASE-TX MDI and MDI-X Port Pinouts
Switch’s 9-Pin Serial Port Null Modem PC’s 9-Pin DTE Port
2 RXD <---------RXD ------------ 3 TxD
3 TXD -----------TXD ----------> 2 RxD
5 SGND -----------SGND ---------- 5 SGND
Note: he left hand column pin assignments are for the male DB-9 connector on the access point.
Pin 3 (TXD or “transmit data”) must emerge on the management console’s end of the connection
as RXD (“receive data”).
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