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

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From: Erick Salmonsen
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 00:00
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go to your local wire and cabling company and tell them what you want to
do. The cable is available at most places.

Ira Kopilow <ikopilow@denver.infi.net> wrote in article
<5tj2hl$9nj$1@nw003.infi.net>...
> In article <5t6oq5$pgj@duke.telepac.pt>, avalejo@student.dei.uc.pt
says...
> >
> >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?
> >
> >regards,
> >
> >Alberto Valejo
> >
> >
> Did you use an off-the-shelf cable?  If 2 computers are hooked to each
other 
> via a cable, you have to cross the connections.  This is what your 
> hub/concentrator/swithc would do.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From: "Erick Salmonsen" <ericks@wport.com>
Subject: Re: connecting 2 computers with card 3com etherlink III 3C509TP  without HUB
Date: 1997/08/23
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