[TriLUG] Re: OT: failed 10/100 switch?

[Greg Brown]

On Friday 11 October 2002 09:22 am, you wrote:
> > [Greg Brown]
> > Some switches have a special "crossover" port that is designed to connect
> > to an upstream switch, you might want to check to see that one of the
> > ports in not labled "crossover" or something like it.
>
> in my experience, if you mix up straight and crossover ports/wires
> (either, not both obviously :) you don't get a link light (which he
> did), but YMMV I guess

You're right!  I didn't catch that in the pervious e-mail.


Greg