From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 9:58: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.wetworks.org (shell.wetworks.org [63.160.175.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CF5837B5B5 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@shell.wetworks.org) Received: (qmail 1841 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jul 2000 16:58:04 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:58:04 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Ken Keeler Cc: questions Subject: Re: Accessing FreeBSD Gateway from Another FreeBSD Machine Message-ID: <20000710125804.I99728@shell.wetworks.org> References: <20000710103411.25690.qmail@web4102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from kkeysler@nwlink.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 09:59:23AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An SMTP stream claimed that Ken Keeler muttered: > If you are connecting a PC (or other computer) to a hub, you almost > always need a straight through cable. (there may be reasons not to do > so, but I can't think of one right now) The only time you would use a cross-over cable connecting a system to a hub was if you were using the "uplink" port on the hub. Those "uplink" ports are already crossed over so that you don't *HAVE* to use a cross-over cable to connect to the next hub. AlanC {turning 5 port hubs into 6 port hubs..} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message