Once upon a time, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog@monmotha.net> said:
It's the wrong gender. It's a DCE pinout on a male connector that's usually used for the DTE. IDK why they did that, and of course they never fixed it because we can't change that sort of thing.
I remember a few such devices from before most everybody switched over to Cisco-ish 8P8C connectors. I think Ascend TNTs were backwards? And then there were some 8P8C that were backwards (IIRC some Adtran gear?), needing a rollover adapter to work with the typical Cisco-compatible cables. It'd be nice if network vendors could spend an extra couple of bucks to put a basic IPMI BMC on the management network interface, with serial over LAN and remote power cycle support. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>