On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar <[email protected]> wrote: >> unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes >> to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that >> both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable >> works also, just not freebsd-freebsd. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas why this might be the case and how to fix it? >> > bad cable or not swapped at all. > > between 2 computers you have to make swapped cable on one side put green > pair in place of yellow, yellow in place of green, brown in place of blue > and blue in place of brown. > > If it's 10 or 100 Mbps ethernet blue&brown doesn't matter, only 2 pairs > are used. >
The cable works find and so does the network card. I have it plugged into my ibook and am sshing across it - everything works fine and as it should when using freebsd to osx, just can't do the same from freebsd to freebsd. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
