On Friday, October 26, 2001, at 04:41 am, Giles wrote:
> Untrue, hooked up a iBook 500MHz (autosensing) to iMacDV
> (non-autosensing) via a crossover cable and was able to fileshare.
It's true. Only on end has to support x-over. What a cross over cable does
is have the TX and RX lines (two of the 'twisted pairs') reverse at the
other end os that when you transmit to the other computer it goes in the
receive bit. Or at least that's the general idea :). You only need one
computer to auto-sense as all it has to do it change which pins it
receives and transmits over. It is the same with hubs/switches/routers.
You plug a normal cable into a switch at one end and into the UPLINK port
on the hub at the other and they will then connect to each other the same
way as an auto sensing computer.
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