[1963] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Networking without a hub or a router/repeater(was Re: ``Networking'' via SCSI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Myers)
Sat Feb 24 02:08:28 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 12:41:50 PST
From: Lincoln Myers <lincoln@netapp.com>
To: drew@poohsticks.org, gustav@public.decam.se, ghsong@kjist.kjist.ac.kr
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Gustav Petersson says:
> The twisted pair cable is 4 pairs of cables, by twisting these pairs
> independently you will get such "null modem" cable.
According to the Ethernet-HOWTO, one twists 1&2 and 3&6, not 1&2, 3&4,
5&6, and 7&8 as one might interpret this. See the Ethernet-HOWTO.
Drew Eckhardt says:
> I haven't been paying enough attention to either of the 100 Mbit/sec
> standards to know what the case is there.
I was told that 100-base-TX can use a null cable with the same pinouts
(i.e. the same (high-grade) cable could work for both 10bt and 100tx).
By the way, why is there no "100-base-2" (100mbit hubless thin
ethernet equivalent)?
Lincoln
