[Gllug] Ethernet crossover wiring

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 24 Feb, John Winters wrote:
> 

> 
> Once you recognise that a genuinely "straight-through" road is one where
> the left hand side of the road as seen from town A is the same side as
> the right hand side seen from town B, then everything works neatly.
> Both towns can use the same convention and you need only one kind of
> road.
>         Left=>
>         -------------------------------------------------------
>       A                                                         B
>         -------------------------------------------------------
>                                                          <=Left
> 
> I'll stop ranting now - honest.
> 
> John
> 

   There is also the problem of extending cables, easy with 1-1, difficult
with almost anything else (although I have seen connectors which have one
side male and the other side female).

-- 
Chris Bell

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