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commence Jeff Garzik quotation: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 11:23:25PM +0800, Michael Clark wrote: >> Or take a two second look holding both RJ45 connectors next to each other >> connector side up. If the colours are in the same order on both - it's >> straight through. First and third are swapped - it's a crossover cable. >> >> Once you learn this simple trick, you'll never have a problem again - >> just get used to spending the extra two seconds before using the cable. > > Works great for people without color-blindness... Depends on the type of colour-blindness, I suppose. The colours used in Cat-V are green, orange, blue and brown, from what I recall. I forget the various types of colour-blindness that exist. -- / | [|] Sean Neakums | Questions are a burden to others; [|] <sneakums@zork.net> | answers a prison for oneself. \ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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