Just to clarify what people where saying about hooking up two comps
without a hub... what you need is a crosscable, NOT a nullmodem cable,
which is used to make a serial/serial link. What a hub does is it
receives input and then echos that input back to all the computers on the
network. THough there are 8 cables in a 10baseT RJ45 connection, only 4
of them are used, a pair for transmit, and a pair for receive. What a
crosscable does is swap those two pairs, so that the transmit of one
computer becomes the receieve of the other computer. If I remember
correctly the way you wire a crosscable is by switching 1 and 3, and 2 and
6 (left to right, tab on the bottom)
Hope this is helpful,
--Tim
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Harald Schwefel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Ken Lai wrote:
>
> Good thing that I have a HUB, now I just need another cable -- hopefully.
>
> Does anyone know anyone who has one of these machines to put the end-piece
> on the cable? I got some nice cable for free, when they where wireing HGS,
> but I need now somehow to put the T-Base connectors at the end of
> each!
>
> Thanks for the help
> harald
>
> > I'm not really an expert at this, but from what I hear, you can't connect
> > two ethernet cards together directly with a cable... you need a hub to
> > connect them (it's got something to do with the polarity in the wires in
> > the cable or something... I'm probably just BS'ing now...).
> > You might try to network the computers using the parallel or serial port
> > instead.
> >
> > --
> > # Ken Lai <min-ken.lai@yale.edu> also at ken.lai@WriteMe.com
> > # http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ml267/ ICQ# 5845632
> >
>
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