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Anonymous_User
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June 7, 2010
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Console Cable

  • June 7, 2010
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I have a FortiWiFi-60AM and I am unable to talk to it through the console port. The cable that came with it is missing. Does anyone have the pin out for the console cable? Any help is appreciated. Thank you

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    FortiRack_Eric
    FortiRack_Eric
    New Member
    June 7, 2010
    it' s a standard console cable, you can use any console cable from any switch. Otherwise google on cisco console cable layout. Cheers, Eric
    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    June 7, 2010
    Yes. The blue Cisco cable works.
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    Anonymous_UserAuthor
    Contributor
    June 7, 2010
    Eric and Bob, Thank you for your replies. That was the first cable I tried. I have since tried other RS232 cables. Perhaps I have a bad unit.
    emnoc
    emnoc
    New Member
    June 8, 2010
    Test the cable on another unit to validate the cable is bad. I had a rash of supposed bad cables that did not work on some units until I revert to PUTTY. Double check all of our async settings and disable flow-control and see if that changes anything
    20twenty
    20twenty
    New Member
    June 8, 2010
    It' s a rollover cable ie the same as a cisco 1<>8 2<>7 3<>6 4<>5 5<>4 6<>3 7<>2 8<>1
    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    June 8, 2010
    I don' t have THAT blue cable... Mine is: DB9 <> RJ-45   1   <>     open   2   <>     3   3   <>     6   4   <>     7   5   <>     4 & 5   6   <>     2   7   <>     8   8   <>     1
    FortiRack_Eric
    FortiRack_Eric
    New Member
    June 8, 2010
    Did you check that you have disabled hardware handshacking and also Xon/Xoff must be off.
    Remi_FTNT
    Staff
    Remi_FTNT
    Staff
    June 9, 2010
    Hi, The cable pinouts are described here : Serial cable pinouts for console access to Fortinet devices http://kb.fortinet.com/kb/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=11344 Baud Rate 9600, Data bits 8, Parity None, Stop bits 1, and Flow Control None. Remi.
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