[wellylug] Dummy ethernet crossover?

[Jeremy Naylor]

Edmund A. Hintz wrote:

>Hi all...
>
>    I've got a bit of an oddball problem here... I need to fool an
>ethernet interface into thinking it's up (it's a long story, just trust
>me that I need to do this). I tried doing a crossover cable of sorts by
>snipping a cat5 cable, stripping the plastic, and twisting together 1-3
>and 2-6. Doesn't work. I'm guessing I need some sort of capacitor or
>something in the loop, but all I can find on google is xover cables
>(great, but there's only 1 enet interface in the loop so it's useless).
>Anybody know where I need to look to find a solution?
>
>    As things stand now, I can plug the machine into a switch, with
>nothing else plugged into said switch, and it does what I need it to do
>(virtual machines talking to each other). But I'd like to find a more
>portable solution than lugging about a switch; it seems like a properly
>wired up RJ45 jack should do the trick...
>
>Regards,
>
>Ed Hintz
>ed at hintz.org
>  
>
Hey Ed,

Trust you? Nah - sorry mate, but I don't think I can do that! :P ;)

Thanks,

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