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OT: Crossover Ethernet cable



I spent last evening trying to connect Mandrake laptop to any of my M$ boxes
using 10BaseT crossover cable.
I don't want to purchase a hub, and according to the theory everything
should be OK with such cable.
The cable is vanilla-classic 1------------3
                                        2------------6
                                        3------------1

                                        6------------2
BUT: nothing works.
Link LEDs are not lighting.
Pings are timeouted at M$ and "destination host is unreachable" at linux
box.
All works terrific with my company's hub and straight cables.
I even started a sniffer at NT and saw that there were an ARP broadcast for
Linux box with no response.
Seems that cable is the problem, but I checked it 3 times.

Anyway, maybe someone succeeded in the past to connect 2 boxes without a
hub, I would appreciate him to share the experience with me.



===========================================================
= Evgeny Popov ===================== epopov@mekorot.co.il =
=       Water Management SCADA Centers Developer          =
=          NT & Unix  System Administrator                =
=          ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL SERVICES               =
=         SUBSIDIARY OF MEKOROT WATER CO.LTD              =



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