Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 10:10:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "Don's FList drop" <freelist@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: (?) RJ45 Crossover Cable Question (Pin numbering) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950809100914.1230A-100000@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu> In-Reply-To: <95Aug7.175159pdt.177475@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Bill Fenner wrote: > > If you make 3-4 a twisted pair, and 5-6 the other twisted pair, your > > cable may work for lengths less than a metre, but will fail miserably > > for longer lengths. > > A meter is a bit conservative; I have used incorrectly-paired 10baseT cables > up to about 80 feet and haven't had a problem (nobody knew they were incorrect > until I watched the guy put one together...) Yeh, I thought so too, but I didn't write the FAQ. ) I've had bad cables work fine with no noticable problems. Never bothered to do a retry count on one, though. <shrug> There's no real reason to do them wrong anyways, so if this frightens a few people into being more conservative than then might have been, I regard it as a Good Thing. Don
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