That makes a lot of sense. I found several 5-terminal pheonix connectors plugged in to one of my devices, somewhere I have a bag of a dozen or so more. If I can't track that down, they appear to be commong enough, a quick search yieded plenty on amazon. I've got a mess of serial cables but can get more.

The real fun is going to come with the devices like the RGB-DVI 300, which doesn't have a full serial connector, just a 3-terminal phoenix port. If I am wiring that to a similar port on the IPCP, could I just use something like twisted pair, or just string together any sort of wire?