From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 8:15:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490A014D6C for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs3.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.102] helo=rncm.ac.uk) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 116F8N-0004cV-00; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:15:15 +0100 Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 19 Jul 99 16:15:20 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 19 Jul 99 16:15:02 GMT Received: from brick (193.63.96.36) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 19 Jul 99 16:14:57 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "Neill Robins" , Subject: RE: NIC recommendation/question Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:15:01 +0100 Message-ID: <001b01bed1f9$789d7700$24603fc1@brick.it-dept.rncm.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2232.26 In-Reply-To: <19990719030925.13737.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Also, with only two cards in a network, isn't it possible to just connect > the two cards via a RJ-45 cable without a hub? Here's the wiriring diagram I use for making an RJ-45 ethernet crossover. +----+--------------+--------------+ |Pin | Normal | Crossover | +----+--------------+--------------+ | 1 | White/Orange | White/Green | | 2 | Orange | Green | | 3 | White/Green | White/Orange | | 4 | Blue | Brown | | 5 | White/Blue | White/Brown | | 6 | Green | Orange | | 7 | White/Brown | White/Blue | | 8 | Brown | Blue | +----+--------------+--------------+ TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message