From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 21:33:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E40016A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:33:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B34243D1D for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 36861 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jan 2004 05:33:45 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 18 Jan 2004 05:33:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.alphaque.com [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0I5KWlv002873; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:20:32 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:20:32 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair To: Marwan Sultan In-Reply-To: <20040114162950.M68358@kifco.net> Message-ID: <20040118131929.K98208-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: cabling problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 05:33:50 -0000 On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Why the network cable from Modem router to box directly doesnot > work in the time from Modem router to HUB and from HUB to BSD > box works fine? you need a cross cable to connect the modem router directly to the freebsd box. it's a standard CAT5 cable with the following pin outs: 1 --> 2 2 --> 1 3 --> 6 6 --> 3 Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+