From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 15:45:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA24108 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:45:11 -0800 Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu (root@moon.pr.erau.edu [192.101.135.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA24102 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:45:07 -0800 Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu by moon.pr.erau.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #16) id m0tA3sE-00020eC; Mon, 30 Oct 95 16:44 MST Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 16:44:13 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Waits To: "Alan B. Evans" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: utp to utp networking ? In-Reply-To: <199510301804.KAA01166@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Alan B. Evans wrote: > I have two FreeBSD machines that have a 3c509 each. > I would like to plug a RJ45 into the UTP port on each > one and run a mini-lan between these two machines. Yes it is possible. You'll need to make yourself a "null utp" cable - if you want to call it that. Make sure TX and RX tip and ring are swapped end to end and you should have no problems! --Steve (http://pr.erau.edu/~swaits)