I have 3 PC, and each PC have only 1 NIC(10/100). So is it possible to connect them peer2peer with an Y-cable ? (w/o hub or switch or router). :rolleyes:
If that true. Plz show me how to make that Y-cable. Thx.
McReagant 0 Newbie Poster
w1r3sp33d 1 Junior Poster
you would have to wire up some sort of box to make all transmit pairs 1 and 2 resend on each receive pairs 3 and 6. I have never heard of anyone trying this so I am quite interested to know if it works. From the PC's perspective it would have to be like a hub and it shouldn't care (as long as it is half duplex on the NIC settings for each.)
Good Luck!
kc0arf 68 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Hi.
This is not possible. You need a hub or a switch to connect 3 or more computers. Or, you can have one computer with two NIC cards, and a crossover cable, and then turn on packet forwarding.
Do not deviate from standards. Design your network right the first time.
Christian
w1r3sp33d 1 Junior Poster
kc0arf has the correct answer, do it the right way. Get a hub or switch with a couple straight cables and be done with it.
Being a vernerable sith lord, I was referring to a ancient device of great evil, the passive hub.
This is only informational, I haven't actually seen one of these in over a decade, wirespeed was much slower then :) http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/knowledgebaseAnswer/0,295199,sid63_gci974732,00.html
McReagant 0 Newbie Poster
Oh thank w1r3sp33d n kc0arf.
Really I have that question when I have seen this page: http://yoda.uvi.edu/InfoTech/rj45.htm#straight
And I understand that the Y-cable connect 1st & 2nd PC with standards crossover. N other connection is pairs 1-2, 4-3 :eek:. Does it work well?
w1r3sp33d 1 Junior Poster
All kidding aside, that is most definately the path to the dark side.
I have seen people "split" cables like this, it won't accomplish exactly what you are trying to achieve. Since the brown and blue pairs don't match up with the tx and rx of the first pc it wont work for what you want to do.
Is this is school project or a network you want to use? If you want to use these machines I would just go buy a little hub or switch.
McReagant 0 Newbie Poster
You have seen people "split" cables like this? N it isn't work? Ok thank for your sharing. :)
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