cabling problem?

[Dinesh Nair]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Marwan Sultan wrote:

>      Why the network cable from Modem router to box directly doesnot
>      work in the time from Modem router to HUB and from HUB  to BSD
>      box works fine?

you need a cross cable to connect the modem router directly to the freebsd
box.

it's a standard CAT5 cable with the following pin outs:

1 --> 2
2 --> 1
3 --> 6
6 --> 3

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