Re: A minimalist network

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

On 8/17/16 5:33 PM, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 05:00:25 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
> > Ahh the question is HOW <chuckle>
> > Bought Cat6 straight thru cable. Neither machine has a light to
> > blink, but both reacted indicating cable present - but no
> > communication established YET.
> As stated by someone else, you need a crossover cable--or something
> equivalent, like plug cables from both machines into a switch, router, or hub,
> I think I've seen someone selling like a crossover adaptera female to male
> adapter wired as a crossover ...

Not necessarily.  It depends on the NICs.  Auto-detect has become pretty 
commonplace over the past 10 years, and I believe that gigE uses all 4 
pairs.

Now if you were connecting RS232 ports....


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