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http://thehomerow.net/~brain/crossover/crossover.jpg

nice, eh?

but hey, there's no packet loss, so I have no complaints!

http://thehomerow.net/~brain/crossover/crossover2.jpg

lr, do you still have pics of your old etherchannel setup?

... do you not have a cable crimper asemi?

> lr, do you still have pics of your old etherchannel setup?

yeah, same place as always

http://www.wingedleopard.net/lucas/projects/n … nnel-0.jpg
http://www.wingedleopard.net/lucas/projects/n … nnel-1.jpg

what is that for, lucas?

no cable crimper, phi. plus I don't think the rj45 connectors at the ends of these pre-made cables are re-usable. this was mostly just a one time "I need to test something and I don't have enough crossover cables" thing. I do need to get a crimper though!

i don't know.. i had two switches that support ether-channeling, which means you can connect them with multiple linkand it won't break the switching (stp), it'll spread the traffic over the links, which is nice for a backbone.

in cat-5 cables, only the orange and green pairs are used, which is how things like power-over-ethernet work.. poe puts voltage on the blue and brown pairs. so i made one cable into two by using the blue and brown pairs for the second rj-45 connector.

neat.

I tried etherchannel at a lan and it worked fine until there was a large load and I think it got retarded and created loops. It was 4 switchs with 2 links per switch

Why did you make a crossover?

had to transfer some stuff between my Soekris and my other router. I think my pf.conf.