This may seem like a lame question,but there is some basis for it…really! Im studying on my own in preparation for ccna exams. I have in my office (2) cisco 2500 routers not being used ( on the shelf). I’ve been playing around with them (connecting into the console port only) with configuration, passwords,etc. but I would like to connect them to our LAN and create a separate network and use them in a more real senario.
The problem being, only one Ethernet port on each. My question is: Can I successfully inter-connect these via serial ports,thus producing (2) usable Ethernet ports. And if this is possible, what would be the most practical way to accomplish this, (I actually don’t have a cisco-cisco serial cable, if there is such a thing). Is there a way to do this?