[FADCA] Cross-over cable

[Russell Oder]

Charlie, please send the cables back to Ray with the TNCs.  Thanks for 
checking them and finding the problem.

Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C Schuman" <k4gbb at earthlink.net>
To: "FADCA - News Reflecter" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>; <fpac at home.f6fbb.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: [FADCA] Cross-over cable


> I've been troubleshooting the Orange park host this week. Two TNCs 
> wouldn't talk to the host. The problem turned out to be the cables. 
> Someone had supplied cross-over cables instead of straight thru wired 
> cables. That fix is easy... replace them.
>
> So now I have the problem solved... what do I do with all my spare time? 
> Fool around with the two spare ports? But, I don't have enough TNCs! I 
> could test the incoming call requests, but I don't have any radios!
>
> Ahhhh, but I do have a unused cross-over cable. I can just jump from one 
> port to another with the cross-over cable and talk to myself.
>
> And what do you know... it works! This trick can be used to 
> test/troubleshoot w/o all the extra hardware.   Just be sure to Label the 
> cable so it don't get installed on a TNC.
>
> <<Charlie>>
>       k4gbb
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