[thelist] Home Network Configuration help

Ken Schaefer ken.schaefer at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 19:37:55 CDT 2004


On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:20:30 +0000, ox4dboy at comcast.net
<ox4dboy at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Disable DHCP on the Netgear and instead of plugging the WAN port into the
> > Linksys and the LAN ports into your other devices, plug the ethernet cable
> > that goes to the Linksys into one of the LAN ports and the other devices
> > into the other LAN ports, essentially turning the router into a switch.
> >
> 
> >If you go this route, you may need to use a crossover cable to connect
> >the two routers together. Generally, whenever you connect two like
> >devices -- computer to computer, switch to switch, router to router --
> >you need to use a crossover cable instead of a normal network cable.
> 
> If, by chance, you are networking Macs (I can't access the 
> first post anymore) in this way, they are smart enough to 
> recgonize and sue a regular ethernet cable as a 
> cross-over cable, eliminating the need to buy another 
> cable.  I am not sure if PCs are capable of this, but 
> I somehow doubt it.


That's a functionality of the network card itself, not "the PC". Most
decent (non-entry level) switches work the same way. If you get
non-entry level network cards, they'll probably function the same as
the cards that are in the Macs

Cheers
Ken


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