From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Fri May 27 2005 - 07:28:28 PDT
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:13:40AM -0400, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> Uhm.... are you plugging the cable from your Newton's ethernet card directly
> into the Ethernet port on your PC? If you are, that won't work. You either
> need two cables and a hub or a "crossover" Ethernet cable and an RJ45F-RJ45F
> connector.
"hub" being an important word. "Smarter" switches may not pass Appletalk
packets either. Anything that does any kind of filtering is
automatically suspect unless it specifically states that it supports
Appletalk.
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missions that require tact and subtlety, I will first see if there is
anyone else equally qualified who would attract less attention. --Overlord
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