On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:58:07 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:14:27PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Michael Tewner wrote: > >> Shimi's solution will work - use a cross-over cable, though, in > >> order to connect the switches together. > > > > hmm. Is there an easy way to tell a crossover cable from a straight > > one? I've never really had to worry about it before except in one > > specific instance and I had many fewer ethernet cables in those days. > > By the colors of the wires: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vergleich_2von2_Crossoverkabel.jpg
An even easier way is to tell the guy at the store that what you want to buy is a crossover cable. Crossover cables do come in a different color than the straight through kind. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
