From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 29 7:11:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7225237B7D7 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 07:11:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.1.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B6F9B31; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:11:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bone.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D46DF1DCB; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:11:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:11:38 -0500 From: "Jacques A . Vidrine" To: Shawn Barnhart Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, steinyv Subject: Re: RJ45 Message-ID: <20000629091138.J39338@bone.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A . Vidrine" , Shawn Barnhart , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, steinyv References: <4.2.0.58.20000628165443.009ef180@> <005801bfe18f$3f805090$0102a8c0@k6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <005801bfe18f$3f805090$0102a8c0@k6>; from swb@grasslake.net on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:59:54AM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:59:54AM -0500, Shawn Barnhart wrote: > What purpose does the thousands (millions?) of miles of basically unused > copper connecting pins 4, 5, 7 & 8 in CAT-5 cables throughout the world > serve? I've routinely used such for that second Ethernet drop that is inevitably needed by yesterday. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message