[rescue] Token-ring pin assignment

[Brian Dunbar]

I can't say this is gospel, but the pinouts look right - it's been too long
since I messed with Token-Ring.

http://www.cis.temple.edu/~stauffer/docs.2/10-BaseT-standard.html

Per the FAQ, the pinouts are the same - a patch cable is a patch cable.
<shrug> I don't remember having to specify 'token-ring' when I used RJ45,
but it HAS been a while.

And this, which is a bit easier to read.

http://webpages.charter.net/ohlandl/NIC/TR-cable.html

Brian

p.s. who in the Wide World of Sports is still using Token Ring?  This isn't
a business, is it?

-----Original Message-----
From: jwbirdsa at picarefy.com [mailto:jwbirdsa at picarefy.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:46 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [rescue] Token-ring pin assignment


   What's the correct way to make an RJ45 UTP token-ring cable? I've been
told that cat5 cable is fine, but obviously the pinout is a little different
from ordinary Ethernet cable, where the color pattern is the same at both
ends when the connectors are held side-by-side. I did get a link-active
light
on the hub (MAU?) with a different cable, which had mirror-image color
patterns, but I don't know if that was really working or only partly
working.

   Even odder, I have a 3Com TokenLink (3c319) which seems to have an RJ11
jack instead of RJ45.

   --James B.
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