[ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: transferring files between Ubuntu and XP slow!!!!

[Rob Beard]

Tan Xuan You wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 12:11 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: 
>> Xuan, what's a rollover cable used for?
>>  
>> Sean
>>
> 
> It's used to connect a router console output to a PC input. Most
> commonly found on Cisco routers actually.
> 
> It doesn't talk TCP/IP I think. IIRC I used to connect using telnet over
> a serial line, and the cable was a weird blue hybrid with a serial jack
> on one end and a RJ45 head on the other end. =) 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_cable
> http://www.jlsnet.co.uk/index.php?page=cc_dialup
> 
> 
> XuanYou

That's caught me out before, some of our routers at work are connected 
to PCs with a CAT5 type cable from the router to a 9pin D to RJ45 
adaptor and sure enough they didn't appear to be wired right.

Then there's the Power Over Ethernet standards too which complicates 
things more (we have specially wired Brown cables for our Cisco Phones 
at work).

Rob