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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.

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