Introduction
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Infoblox Installation Guide
Connector Pin Assignments
An Infoblox appliance has three types of ports on its front panel:
•
USB port (reserved for future use)
•
Male DB-9 console port
•
RJ-45 10Base-T/100Base-T/1000Base-T auto-sensing gigabit Ethernet ports
The DB-9 and RJ-45 connector pin assignments are described in
. The DB-9 pin assignments follow the
EIA232 standard. To make a serial connection from your management system to the console port, use the RJ-45
rollover cable and two female RJ-45-to-female DB-9 adapters that ship with the appliance. The RJ-45 pin
assignments follow IEEE 802.3 specifications. All Infoblox Ethernet ports are auto-sensing and automatically adjust
to standard straight-through and cross-over ethernet cables. 10Base-T Ethernet and 100Base-T fast Ethernet use
the same two pairs of wires. The twisted pair of wires connecting to pins 1 and 2 transmit data, and the twisted pair
connecting to pins 3 and 6 receive data. For 1000Base-T connections, all four twisted-pair wires are used for
bidirectional traffic.
Figure 4
Connector Pin Assignments
2
1
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
2
1
3 4
6
5
7 8
7
8
6 5
3
4
2 1
DB-9 Connector Pin Assignments
RJ-45 Connector Pin Assignments
Pin
10Base-T
100Base-T
Signal
1000Base-T
Signal
T568A
Straight-Through
Wire Color
T568B
Straight-Through
Wire Color
1
Transmit +
BI_DA+
White/Green
White/Orange
2
Transmit -
BI_DA-
Green
Orange
3
Receive +
BI_DB+
White/Orange
White/Green
4
(not used)
BI_DC+
Blue
Blue
5
(not used)
BI_DC-
White/Blue
White/Blue
6
Receive -
BI_DB-
Orange
Green
7
(not used)
BI_DD+
White/Brown
White/Brown
8
(not used)
BI_DD-
Brown
Brown
Male DB-9 Console Port
RJ-45 Ethernet Ports
Pin
Signal
Direction
1
(not used)
2
Receive
Input
3
Transmit
Output
4
DTE Ready
Output
5
Ground
—
6
DCE Ready
Input
7
RTS (Request to Send)
Output
8
CTS (Clear to Send)
Input
9
(not used)
Legend: BI_D = bidirectional; A, B, C, D = wire pairings
(Looking into the console
port on an Infoblox
appliance)
(Looking into RJ-45
Ethernet ports on an
Infoblox appliance)
