RJ Connector Types

The following table shows the relationship of various RJ plugs to the 8-pin RJ-45 jack on the terminal server. The Digi 8-pin jack can accept any of the listed plug types. The wiring of each plug type corresponds to support of specific capabilities such as software handshaking and hardware handshaking.

Digi
8-Pin
Jack
Signal Name RJ-45
8-Pin
Plug
RJ-11
6-Pin
Plug
RJ-11
4-Pin
Plug
1 RTS 1    
2 DSR 2 1  
3 DCD 3 2 1
4 RxD 4 3 2
5 TxD 5 4 3
6 SG 6 5 4
7 DTR 7 6  
8 CTS 8