Re: [LUG] IPCop v Smoothwall

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Neil Stone wrote:
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| | I used a twisted pair between laptop and the Box just for setting up.
| | However, I have an ad hoc network with two boxes, plus a "flying" cable
| | for the laptop if needs be, eth0 connected to a switch and then eth0 to
| | the firewall box.  Should this final cable be twisted?
|
| bit lost with all those wires... maybe i'll look at this when I have
| eaten.. sugar levels will go up then !!

I think by "twisted" he means "crossed".

The cables are all twisted, otherwise they wouldn't work very well.

In general any cable from switch to ethernet card should be a straight
through cable.

Often it just doesn't matter as the devices that use to care, now just
autosense, but it is usually only linking two ethernet cards directly
that requires "crossed" cables. The hubs usually have a button or method
of making hub to hub connections work without a "crossed" cable.

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