At 03:03 PM 7/12/99 -0600, David Hajoglou wrote:
>I don't think you can use just a cross-over cable, I think you need a hub.
>I know this is not very helpfull, but I tried the cross-over method once
>to no avail, I ended up having to use a hub.
> There might be a way to do it with a null modem cable.
Sorry, but this is simply incorrect. The whole purpose of an Ethernet
Crossover cable is to eliminate the hub, in exactly the same way that a
"modem eliminator" cable conntect two DTE serial devices. I've used them in
the past quite successfully (though not with Macs). You may have ahd
problems with incorrectly crossed cables, with card matching (say if one is
a 10 mb card, the other a 100 mb), or with some other part of the setup ...
but not from the concept of using a crossover cable as a "hub eliminator".
A null-modem cable has 9- or 25-pin serial conenctors on each end ... hard
to fit them into the RJ45 jacks an Ethernet card uses. The only way to do it
with serial cables is to make a ppp connection -- this works (I've done it
experimentally, just to mess around, but never for real use) but it's too
slow for most real uses.
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