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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:23:57 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
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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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