> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > kevin, is this a crossover cable? my understanding is that if you > > connect two NICs together, one (some? all?) of the lines need to cross over > > to a different position.
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Gabriel Rosa wrote: > my understanding is that the two signal pairs need to reverse, so they match > up with the right pins on the other side. This is called a crossover cable. > > Most patch cables, as labeled by fry's/etc, are straight through connections. > > My advice would be to buy a cheap hub and make your life easier, since > the hub will take regular cabling, and give you lots of blinking leds > to tell you what's going on :) If you really want to make your own: http://mike.passwall.com/class/public/ethernet/10T.txt 1 and 3, 2 and 6. Why are 4 and 5 skipped? analog phones use center pairs, and this allows for those to be used (backwards compatability thing with rj45) I second the suggestion for a hub. Useful for company who may bring their laptops over, and if IP MASQ uis setup, you can all geek out on the internet. If you decide to go with a 10/100 hub, then why not pay the extra ~$100 and get a Wireless Accesspoint with 10/100 ports too, and you can roam in house with WEP and stuff. :-) When you consider hubs, getting one with an uplink port is a good idea for later expansion. (The uplink port logically does the same as a patch cable and switches the Tx and Rx lines to allow you to connect hub to a hub.) -ME _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
