Eth0 failed?

Clinton MacDonald yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Feb 20 10:54:00 2004


Norberto:

Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar AT yahoo DOT com>
wrote:
> If you hold the two ends of a mystery cable next
> to each other with the same side up (with the
> clasp side down, for instance) and look at
> the color order of the internal wiring in the
> RJ-45 jack and you see that the colored wiring:
> 
> is the same order: then it's a patch cable.
> is in different order: then it's a crossover
> cable.

That is excellent information! Thank you for sharing
it with us (now, I can sort out my crossover from my
regular ethernet cables ;-) ).

Well done!

Best wishes,
Clint