On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 at 22:58, dek wrote: > you don't use cross over cable's if you don't need them but there are > some "occasions" that you should like connecting two pc's without a hub > or even sometimes connecting to routers
I think Fooler meant that using a cross-over cable to connect a NIC to a standard port on a hub/switch won't work. This is correct, isn't it? AFAIK a cross-over cable is used to connect NICs to each other directly with neither hub nor switch, or connecting say, a hub to a switch using neither device's cross-over port. AFAIK you can't just use cross-over and straigh-thru cables interchangeably. Please let me know if I missed something. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
