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Re: connecting 2 computers with card 3com etherlink III 3C509TP without HUB

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From: Gary Breuckman
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <5t6oq5$pgj@duke.telepac.pt>,
Alberto Valejo <avalejo@student.dei.uc.pt> wrote:
>The windows autodetect the card but in the network neighborhood we can't see
>the other computer only ours.
>We have only connected utp cable without hub (it's possible?!).
>The protocols are ipx/spx and tcp/ip.
>We can't ping in one computer or another the opposite computer.
>Any ideas for make this work?


You can connect two computers without a hub, but the cable needs to flip
the receive and transmit pairs, did you do that?

	1 ---> 3
	2 ---> 6

	3 <--- 1
	6 <--- 2

1 and 2 need to be a wire pair, 3 and 6 need to be a wire pair.


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From: puma@execpc.com (Gary Breuckman)
Subject: Re: connecting 2 computers with card 3com etherlink III 3C509TP  without HUB
Date: 1997/08/17
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