Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

Michael Clark
2002-12-25T15:15:18Z

On 12/25/02 21:50, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, David Lloyd wrote:
>
>
>>Thank Goodness -- I've worked in places where they INSIST on making
>>crossover cables the same length and colour as normal cables. Then you
>>go, "huh? samba/the network/the kernel" is not working until someone
>>with better eyesight finds the problem.
>>
>>*death to crossover cables*
>
>
> That's pretty lame of them but shouldn't the ethernet link light be a good
> indicator that it's a cable problem?
>
> fix: Dud cable->trash bin "oops was that a crossover? it wasn't marked as
> one."

Or take a two second look holding both RJ45 connectors next to each other
connector side up. If the colours are in the same order on both - it's
straight through. First and third are swapped - it's a crossover cable.

Once you learn this simple trick, you'll never have a problem again -
just get used to spending the extra two seconds before using the cable.

~mc