Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question From: Raymond Lillard r...@sonic.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:36:43 AM On 12/28/2010 08:01 PM, Drew wrote: The colors do not matter. What matters

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/29/2010 9:52 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question From: Raymond Lillard r...@sonic.net To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:36:43 AM On 12/28/2010 08:01 PM, Drew wrote

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/29/2010 9:52 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question From: Raymond Lillard r...@sonic.net On 12/28/2010 08:01 PM, Drew wrote: The colors do not matter. What matters is the pairs. And every

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: On 12/28/2010 2:51 PM, Morten Torstensen wrote: On 28.12.2010 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote: The colors are not important aside from standardization.  If you need to fix one end of the cable, you have to make sure it's the

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-29 Thread Drew
The colors are directly linked to the pairing. Don't tell the newbies that neutral and ground are the same thing, don't tell the newbies to lick the freezing lamp pole, and don't tell the newbies to get cute with the color coding. Ignoring the standard color code is for emergencies, not for

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/25/2010 9:42 AM, S Mathias wrote: Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this list :\]: ## Q1) when cabling, is the color order important? like: straight

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 28.12.2010 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote: The colors are not important aside from standardization. If you need to fix one end of the cable, you have to make sure it's the same as the other end. If you use the standard color scheme, that is not a problem. Not sure if that is true. I've always

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/28/2010 2:51 PM, Morten Torstensen wrote: On 28.12.2010 15:20, Bowie Bailey wrote: The colors are not important aside from standardization. If you need to fix one end of the cable, you have to make sure it's the same as the other end. If you use the standard color scheme, that is not a

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Drew
The colors do not matter.  What matters is the pairs. And every person who comes after you will curse your work because *both* the colors *and* the pairs are part of the 568A/B standard. In my shop if you tried that you'd be very quickly looking for work elsewhere. ;-) -- Drew Nothing in

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-28 Thread Raymond Lillard
On 12/28/2010 08:01 PM, Drew wrote: The colors do not matter. What matters is the pairs. And every person who comes after you will curse your work because *both* the colors *and* the pairs are part of the 568A/B standard. In my shop if you tried that you'd be very quickly looking for work

[CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread S Mathias
Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this list :\]: ## Q1) when cabling, is the color order important? like: straight cabling: A side: white-orange, orange, white-green,

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 8:12 PM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this list :\]: ## Q1) when cabling, is the color order

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/25/10 6:42 AM, S Mathias wrote: Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this list :\]: ## Q1) when cabling, is the color order important? like: straight cabling:

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/25/10 6:42 AM, S Mathias wrote: 568A and B aren't straight vs crossover. they are simply two different schemes for the order of the pairs to the connector. basically, they swap the green and orange pairs. I

Re: [CentOS] 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 25.12.2010 20:29, Ryan Wagoner wrote: I commonly see jacks wired to T568B standard. I've seen some CAT6 jacks with only the colors shown for T568B. The coloring for T568A is backwards compatible with 1 or 2 line phone connectors. The B is the most common, and that is the one I use. As for