[wellylug] Dummy ethernet crossover?

[Chris Hodgetts]

Why dont you put another interface card in your  machine, and then
crossover between eth0 and eth1 ??


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:22, Edmund A. Hintz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004, jumbophut thus spake:
> 
> >Well, this may or may not be helpful, but back when BNC connectors
> >were standard, you had to have a terminator-gizmo at the end of the
> >the loop.  (I used to love how the entire network died when one
> >machine's connector came loose). Anyway, maybe you could get your
> >hands on a terminator by googling BNC?
> >
> >I vaguely recall that the terminator just reflected the signal back
> >along the loop, but I'm sure wiser and more experienced wellyluggers
> >will correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> 
>     Yeah, I remember it well... Those networks were pain incarnate... I
> figure I probably need something like that, but don't really know enough
> about the technology to fully grok exactly what I need(I've not tried to
> hack ethernet at this level before). Hopefully those wiser and more
> experienced folks will be along shortly. ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ed Hintz
> ed at hintz.org
>