deFreese, Barry wrote:
Hey, that gives me an idea. How about a cable with two heads on one end, one being a crossover? Or would that introduce noise?-----Original Message----- From: Hugh Saunders [mailto:hugh@mjr.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:50 PM To: Debian User Subject: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection] On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:There's something called an ethernet crossover cable, youSo, is there a more modern way to "hotwire" two boxes without the use of routers or extra file systems? Is it possible to do a straight USB to USB or NIC to NIC connection?can hookup twomachines back to back with this and not need a hub.on the subject of crossover cables, do you know where you can get adapters that go on the end of normal patch cables to convert themto crossover?The reason i ask is because i only want to carry one network cable in laptop bag but would be useful to have a crossover cable sometimes..thankshughIt's somewhat pointless to have an adapter I would think since you are still going to need the male RJ-45 end on both ends. If you going to carry and adapter and a cable isn't just as easy to carry two cables? If you really want to do it, one easy way would be to butcher an existing patch cable and cut off one end and get one of the wall jack inserts for cat-5 and punch it down as a crossover. Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 Barry.deFreese@nike.com "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell
On a side note, newer Macintoshes will autosense the need to internally create a crossover connection on their ethernet ports, and will autonegotiate which end does it when you connect two Macs. Really cool!
Kent