[rescue] Rescued Sun servers, now what?!

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Lex Landa <brooknet at imap.cc>
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" On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:44 -0500, Mouse wrote:
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" > A
" > straight-through cable connects pin 1 on one end to pin 1 on the other
" > end, 2 to 2, etc, all the way up to 8 to 8; a crossover cable connects
" > 1 to 3, 2 to 6, 3 to 1, 4 to 4, 5 to 5, 6 to 2, 7 to 7, and 8 to 8.
" > (The peculiar-looking choice of wires to swap is of historical origin...
" 
" I'm thinking that the phrase 'twisted pair' explains it: the pairs are
" swapped, but the common wires are not.

nope; it's 4 pairs.  for odd historic telephone reasons, the pairs
aren't always run to adjacent pins.  568b started life out as part of
at&t pds [premises distribution system], which was naturally used for
starlan-1, the twisted pair ancestor of 10bt and 100bt.
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