[lug] need cat5 wiring/"Dest host unreachable" help

[Nate Duehr]

Sounds like an EIA/TIA 568A to 568B wiring spec mismatch... heh.  Been
there, done that.  Have toner/inductive listener will travel.

Glad you found it Michael.  I never thought to warn you that you could
have a one-way connection there... although in your original posting you
said both sides had link lights on?  How'd that happen?

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:19:58AM -0500, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> Thus spoke John Karns
> > I've encountered problems similar to what you describe when installing
> > cat-5 cable due to excessive cable length.
> 
> After about three days of trying to track this down, I finally have it
> working (well, almost).  Tests made it look like the cable lengths were too
> long - it worked between my office and the breakout box in my bedroom
> closet, but not if I tried to run from there to another room in the house.  
> 
> Well, the problem was the punch down box.  It was color coded to know which
> wires to punch down on which wires.  But the color codes were wrong.  The
> green and orange pairs were switch.  Agggghhhh!  Once I got that
> straightened out, everything works fine.  I have a simple hub in the closet
> that routes into the hub in my office.  So now the house is wired for for
> computers in 4 different rooms (which is as many rooms that were prewired
> with cable in the walls when the house was built).
> 
> Of course, the final goal still hasn't been achieved.  That's because I
> know nothing about Windows (my daughter/wife's system) and trying to add a
> network card that uses my Linux box as a gateway isn't a simple task.  I
> tried to load the drivers and configure the network, but I have no way to
> test it except using IE.  I found a ping routine but it isn't routing out
> the card.  It makes it look like the driver isn't installed.  *sigh*  I
> hate windows.  I'd replace the box with Linux but both ladies hate Netscape
> cuz it doesn't handle Java apps properly.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the tips on wiring.
> 
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