[lug] Re: switch

[Hugh Brown]

It is a twisted cable (twisted pair).  Do you mean a crossover cable?

Assuming a crossover cable is needed for the NIC to the switch, why does a connection from
the switch to the hub only work if the "straight" cable is plugged into the
hub's uplink port and a regular port on the switch?

Just trying to understand.

Hugh


> > Also, why don't things work when I plug the cable from the internal nic on the firewall to the uplink
> > port (it works if I choose a different port)?
> 
> You _do_ use a "twisted" cable if you connect to the uplink port, do you?
> Twisted cables are the equivalent of nullmodem cables. You need them if you want
> to plug a normal NIC into an uplink port (or if you want to connect to NICs without
> using a hub/switch).
>