Networking: How to add another router

[Stan Goodman]

On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:58:07 Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:14:27PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Michael Tewner wrote:
> >> Shimi's solution will work - use a cross-over cable, though, in
> >> order to connect the switches together.
> >
> > hmm.  Is there an easy way to tell a crossover cable from a straight
> > one? I've never really had to worry about it before except in one
> > specific instance and I had many fewer ethernet cables in those days.
> 
> By the colors of the wires:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vergleich_2von2_Crossoverkabel.jpg


An even easier way is to tell the guy at the store that what you want to 
buy is a crossover cable. Crossover cables do come in a different color 
than the straight through kind.

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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel