jgt, spooky, I never knew that.
Just fired up hyper-term on a pc with win2k and no serial ports and it asked for the ip address and shows default port 23!
Well I never!
Anyway, bakunin, sure does look like he is using ip not serial and as an aside I don't think IBM will sell you such a cable because they do not make one - or more correctly they do not know they sell one.
Well, not for connecting a 9 pin terminal to an rs6k, although I believe the ESS / Shark cable the CEs use for servicing the old 2105 is just the job, if only I knew the part number...
For PC to RS6k / pseries / system p connection using a 9 pin d-type at both ends the cable you need is as follows:
2 - 3
3 - 2
4 - 6 and 1
6 and 1 - 4
5 - 5
7 - 8
8 - 7
mhatmi, can you confirm if you are using IP or serial please.
Where are you plugging the cable into the B50?
Here are the books for your system:
pSeries and AIX Information Center
If you are using fixed IP on the B50 you will need to configure your laptop to use a fixed IP address in the same subnet as the B50 before the connection will work.