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[ILUG] house wiring - serial over cat-5

[ILUG] house wiring - serial over cat-5

David Murphy drjolt+ilug at redbrick.dcu.ie
Thu Apr 26 20:16:38 IST 2001


Quoting <20010426200053.A1295 at suberic.net>
by kevin lyda <kevin at suberic.net>:

> can i run serial devices over cat-5?  namely a vt220 terminal.  total wire
> length is about 7 to 25 meters.

AFAIK, it's no different from using normal serial cables. Certainly it
can be done, console connections on most network equipment are over
utp. 

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