Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Dec 25 2002 - 12:23:57 EST


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...

        Jeff

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