Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with AllNet

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don Koch writes ("Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Dec 10 meeting with 
AllNet"):
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:00:54 +0000
> Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Are suitable adapters not available off-the-shelf ?  If we have
> > homebuilt adapters we will need to keep documentation for them in case
> > we want to make more, or in case they break.
> 
> Supposedly there were. I think the vendor got them off the wrong shelf.
> I suspect the ones they sent were for a UPS, but that's just speculation.
> The pinouts had no basis on any reality I'm unaware of. (One wire was
> soldered to the shell.)

Perhaps the right way to fix this problem would be to go back to the
supplier and ask them to supply the correct part ?

(I appreciate that we might want to use a handmade thing in the
meantime so as to get unblocked.)

> These are documented on the Comtrol site. The only difference between
> the "standard" ones and the ones that Chris George made are that the
> standard ones would require a null modem adaptor. He just swapped the
> Txd/Rxd, DSR/DTR and RTS/CTS pins and left DCD out.

Null modem adapters are also available off-the-shelf.

If we are to continue to use custom-made adapters I think we
absolutely need a complete pinout specification.

Thanks,
Ian.

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