Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > Thomas Lakofski wrote: > > You'd be surprised... I described a cross cable to a friend of mine, and > > told him that he'd have to go and get one made up or get some tools. He > > mailed me back 5 minutes later to tell me that he'd got it working. I >

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Thomas Lakofski wrote: > > You'd be surprised... I described a cross cable to a friend of mine, and > > told him that he'd have to go and get one made up or get some tools. He > > mailed me back 5 minutes later to tell me that he'd got it working. I > > asked him how, he said he'd pried the cabl

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Thomas Lakofski wrote: > You'd be surprised... I described a cross cable to a friend of mine, and > told him that he'd have to go and get one made up or get some tools. He > mailed me back 5 minutes later to tell me that he'd got it working. I > asked him how, he said he'd pried the cable apart, d

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Thomas Lakofski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > Vincent Renardias wrote: > > Yes, you can, but you need a special ethernet cable with a pair of wires > > crossed. (I made a few ones, but you should consider to buy it if you have > > no special wiring knowledge. Costs about $8 here.) > > Given the sp

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Vincent Renardias wrote: > Yes, you can, but you need a special ethernet cable with a pair of wires > crossed. (I made a few ones, but you should consider to buy it if you have > no special wiring knowledge. Costs about $8 here.) Given the specs, I could but not without tools :) Looks like I go sh

Re: non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-30 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: > This is a little off-topic but given my intent I hope no one minds... > > I have a spare SUN Sparc-5 that I'd like to configure as a linux box (why? > because I can :)). Anyway, my *entire* network is token-ring and I don't > have a spare token-ring

non-hub 10baseT connections

1997-12-29 Thread Stephen Zander
This is a little off-topic but given my intent I hope no one minds... I have a spare SUN Sparc-5 that I'd like to configure as a linux box (why? because I can :)). Anyway, my *entire* network is token-ring and I don't have a spare token-ring card (let alone a linux driver) so my question is: