That pinout won't work for ethernet. The active pairs on ethernet are pins 1,2 and 3,6 numbered left to right with the clip away from you and the cable running toward you. Clear as mud huh. Cisco has some info on their site: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/ipvc/ipvc10/ipvc3530/appb.ht m I hope Lookout doesn't munge that link too much. As long as you hook the uplink port to a regular port you should be ok. Collisions on half duplex ethernet are not unusual when you really hammer the network. I would check to make sure you don't have one NIC that is running in full duplex on a half duplex network, that really makes a mess. If the none of the ports on your hubs are partitioning then you are probably ok. -----Original Message----- From: Shawn [mailto:fertch at mninter.net] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:06 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Co-living 100mb and 10mb ethernet This brings up an interesting point. I have two hubs at home, both are 10Mbs. I was transferring files from one machine to another, and I was getting collisions. The tranfer was fine, but I got to thinking about this. I made my own cabling, but I don't know if I have then right or not. Could someone either color code both ends for me? I thought it was like below: orange orange-white blue blue-white brown brown-white green green-white black black-white Is this correct if you are looking at both cable ends with the security clip towards you going from left to right? Also, one of my hubs is a 8 port +bnc + 1 uplink (it's a D-link) and the other is a standard 8 port hub (3 Com). So, would my uplink port go to port 8 of the 3Com hub? If someone can answer this or provide a link of proper cable making procedures, would appreciate it greatly. Shawn _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list