CREATING A CROSS-OVER CABLE

CREATING A CROSS-OVER CABLE

OK, Isaid four pins are used. Take an example of a simple tin phone you

 

created when in primary school. Your mouth-piece (mic) to the earpiece

 

of the other party and vice versa.
Same case applies here.
Only pins 1,2,3, and 6 are used (the orange and green pairs)
So in this case, the blue and the brown pair are plain wasted.

 

Crimp one end like we did in straight through cable (i.e W.Orange,

Orange, W.Green, Green, Blue,W.Blue,Green,W.Brown,Brown)
Since we are using a Direct connection, Like our example phone we will

 

do the transmitter/receiver stuff all by ourselves. So for the other

 

end SWAP the Orange and the green pairs so thatthe other end will be

 

like (i.e W.Green, Green, W.Orange,Blue,W.Blue,Orange,

Green,W.Brown,Brown)
This is where the name cross-over came from.

Q. Why didn't we do this swaping stuff in straight thro' connection.
A. The cross-over function is done by the switch.

 

Next I will show some simple commands that will help in your windows

 

network.

 

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