begin quoting John Oliver as of Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:14:21PM -0700: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:02:24PM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > > And 1' and 2' lengths, too. > > This might have changed, but years ago, the Ethernet spec called for a > minimum length of 1 meter. I know shorter cables work, but I tend to > always use or make cables at least 3' long.
Was that cable length, or distance between devices? I thought it was the latter. I'm trying out a 1' cable on a patch panel at the moment. It seems to be working... and it helps a lot with the dangling-cable problem. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
