After battling for a little while on this and referring to many docs provided by Perle, I decided to find the Cisco console pinout from Cisco and just marry up the functions on the Perle pinout diagrams with them. After that, bingo! For anybody else that might be looking for a more simple description of the wiring necessary to connect most Cisco switches and routers to an IOLAN STS16 (or similar), here it is:
IOLAN RJ-45 Plug
Pin | Function | Color
1 | GND | White-Orange
2 | RTS | Orange-White
3 | DSR | White-Green
4 | TXD | Blue-White
5 | RXD | White-Blue
6 | GND | Green-White
7 | CTS | White-Brown
8 | DTR | Brown-White
CISCO RJ-45 Plug
Ping | Function | Color
1 | CTS | Orange-White
2 | DTR | White-Green
3 | TXD | White-Blue
4 | GND | Green-White
5 | NC/GND | White-Orange
6 | RXD | Blue-White
7 | DSR | Brown-White
8 | RTS | White-Brown
Excellent stuff, thx!
You saved me a lot of time today.
Tested with Juniper SRX firewalls, Juniper EX switch and Juniper J-routers.