On Saturday 30 October 2004 09:17 pm, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on > > the same PC before (I use a hub....cheap&efficient) but I don't think > > it poses a problem. They should be connected with a "crossover cable" > > (comparable to a "nul modem" serial cable) otherwise you're going to > > get nowhere!! You're not using "straight through" cat5, right? > > The cable package says Belkin FastCAT5e Network Cable, with RJ45 male > connectors on each end. Are you saying that I have to switch a couple > wires on one end of these cables?
Yep, you need a crossover cable. The crossing is taken care of when you use a hub or a switch, but when you connect two devices directly, you need to cross over the send line from one box to the receive line of the other. If you look at the ends of the standard ethernet cable, you should see a pattern something like this. **end1** **end2** orange stripe -- orange stripe orange solid -- orange solid green stripe -- green stripe blue solid -- blue solid blue stripe -- blue stripe green solid -- green solid brown stripe -- brown stripe brown solid -- brown solid A crossover looks like this: **end1** **end2** orange stripe -- green stripe orange solid -- green solid green stripe -- orange stripe blue solid -- blue solid blue stripe -- blue stripe green solid -- orange solid brown stripe -- brown stripe brown solid -- brown solid blue and brown are not used in the ethernet setup, so you can ignore them. You can buy them or make them yourself if you have a crimper, or know of someone that does. Or, the simplest route is just to buy a simple four port switch and be done with it. > > ...and that's odd, since host jennifer is a Windblows box not properly > configured yet. (I keep getting the error message `network cable > unplugged' --- and no clue, since it is plugged in.) > ��������Host jackie (MDK 9.1) can ping the server and gets responses > just fine, but nothing else works yet. I tried a browser to > http://behne.us (which should work within my localnet,) but it gets a > `can't connect' message. It thinks the cable is unplugged because it's listen end is plugged into the listen end of the other machine instead of the send end. Kind of like having two people on the phone with no one talking. Both callers can't tell if there is someone on the other end of the line. The crossover cables will solve this problem -- /g
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