Nortel Networks 2750 User Manual

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Appendix A  Technical specifications  79
Nortel VPN Router Installation — VPN Router 2750 
Figure 27   
10/100BASE-TX Ethernet connector
 provides the 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet port pinouts.
Serial port
The system board provides a serial port on the rear of the chassis to enable 
out-of-band management. Use the serial port to assign the management IP address 
and subnet mask to the newly installed gateway (for more information, see 
The serial cable that Nortel supplies with the VPN Router 2750 is a DB9/
DB25-to-DB9/DB25 cable. This cable provides a crossover connection 
(transmit-to-receive and receive-to-transmit). The DB9 connector goes into the 
gateway and the other DB9 or DB25 connector goes into your workstation 
(
Table 19   
10/100BASE-X Ethernet port pinouts
Pin
Description
1
TD  +
2
TD  -
3
RD +
6
RD -
CS260010A
87654321
RD- RD+ TD-
TD+