What is console cable?

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Hi,

I just enrol for the course, and I need to buy 3 kind of cables -- cross
over, straight through and console cable.

Can I ask what is console cable?

Regards,

Adrian

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"Adrian" <a@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I just enrol for the course,

WHICH course? There are lots of courses offered by many schools,
instructors, and wannabe teachers.

> and I need to buy 3 kind of cables

YOU have to buy the hardware to take the course? Since you have to
provide the hardware for this hardware-related course (since you posted
in a hardware-related group), do you get to keep them after you finish
the course regardless of your grade, or do they get to keep your
property that they should have provided in the first place?

> cross over

Probably a host-to-host network cable.

> straight through

Maybe that is a regular network cable.

> and console cable.

Sounds like the monitor (also called a console). Geez, not only do you
have to provide the network cables, but they require you to supply them
with part of the computer's hardware before you can use it? I sure
don't want to go to that school.

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yes, it's a cisco related course.
I think this is what I need, thx very much.


"McSpreader" <invalid@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Vanguard" <vanguard_news@NIXgawab.com> wrote in
> newsm0exYelFHA.3080@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
>
> > "Adrian" <a@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:ui13KyclFHA.2852@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just enrol for the course,
> >
> > WHICH course? There are lots of courses offered by many
> > schools, instructors, and wannabe teachers.
> >
> >> and I need to buy 3 kind of cables
> >
> > YOU have to buy the hardware to take the course? Since you have
> > to provide the hardware for this hardware-related course (since
> > you posted in a hardware-related group), do you get to keep them
> > after you finish the course regardless of your grade, or do they
> > get to keep your property that they should have provided in the
> > first place?
> >
> >> cross over
> >
> > Probably a host-to-host network cable.
> >
> >> straight through
> >
> > Maybe that is a regular network cable.
> >
> >> and console cable.
> >
> > Sounds like the monitor (also called a console). Geez, not only
> > do you have to provide the network cables, but they require you
> > to supply them with part of the computer's hardware before you
> > can use it? I sure don't want to go to that school.
> >
>
> More guesswork:
>
> Could this be a nets & comms course specialising in Cisco stuff? In
> which case you may need a special cable(s) to connect a PC to the
> console port of many of their routers etc.
>
> eg: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/14.html#topic17
>
> It would also make sense that the students provide their own 'tools
> of the trade'.