[CentOS] Simulate RJ 45 Port

Fri Apr 18 05:58:59 UTC 2008
John <jses27 at gmail.com>

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 22:35 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> gopinath wrote:
> > how to simulate a RJ 45 port to act as serial port any option in 
> > Centos 5.1. Please help me out on this.
> >  
> 
> huh?     You'll have to be a WHOLE lot more explicit as to what you want 
> to do here.  
> 
> on x86 hardware, RJ45 ports are almost always ethernet, serial ports 
> generally use DB9 connectors.   
> 
> On some other servers like Sun Sparc and IBM Power systems, RJ45 ports 
> are sometimes used for serial console connections, but those ports are 
> wired up to UARTs (asynchronous communication adapters) rather than 
> ethernet network interface adapter

Attachment Unit Interface? (AUI) RJ46 to Serial DB9  or RJ45 to LPT ?

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