From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 28 15:23:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2B937BA1E for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA53494; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:23:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:23:09 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: steinyv , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RJ45 Message-ID: <20000628162309.A53453@panzer.kdm.org> References: <200006282148.RAA86638@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006282148.RAA86638@larryboy.graphics.cornell.edu>; from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:48:27PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 17:48:27 -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > >I want to make my own cables. Does anyone know of a site that describes > >the pin out of the connector, and what wires to use? I came across one > >site, but I need to cross reference so that I could verify the correct > >information. Im trying to make a straight through on cat 5 cable. > > For straight through you need: > > 1 -------- 1 > 2 -------- 2 > 3 -------- 3 > 6 -------- 6 > > 1 and 2 should be a pair, and 3 and 6 should be a pair. The rest > don't matter. ...unless you're doing Gigabit Ethernet over copper, which uses all 8 wires. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message