To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:57 PM
Subject: cat5e laptop-to-laptop?
Can I take two computers (laptops both) and plug them together directly from one nic to another with a "standard" ethernet cable? Or do I need a crossover cable or something to do that? And if I have the correct cable, will the two machines do some sort of peer-to-peer networking more or less automagically or will it be difficult to set up? One runs FC2, the other Mac OS X 10.3.7.
-- Trevor Smith trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You need a crossover cable. You can sometimes buy them at CompUSA or Radio Shack.
To make an TIA/EIA-568B (a fairly common/standard pinout) Cat5 crossover cable, reverse pins 1 and 3 and 2 and 6. In other words, it'll look like this on one end:
1 white with orange stripe 2 solid orange 3 white with green stripe 4 blue 5 white with blue stripe 6 green 7 white with brown stripe 8 brown
And on the other end it will look like this:
1 white with green stripe 2 green 3 white with orange stripe 4 blue 5 white with blue stripe 6 solid orange 7 white with brown stripe 8 brown
Cheers,
Thomas
