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cdad2000

What's up Dawgs?

I went over the CCNA prepCenter Intro practice exams questions , and I was marked wrong for the following question:

What type of cable should be used to connect an ethernet host directly to a Router?

I thought it was a straight-through cable, but it says it should be a cross-over. Are they buggin out, or am I missing something. Thanks, in advance.

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kyle.tk

they are right. You use a cross-over cable.

kplab

A cross-over cable is used to connect:
- A hub or switch to another hub or switch.
- A router or host to another router or host.

A straight-through cable is used to connect:
- A router or host to a hub or switch.

cdad2000

Yup, there right. Thanks for help buddies

I guess I was looking into the question to deep.

QUIX0TIC

Plus, you can always try if you have a router and a laptop. You will need a cross-over!

darkmagic

Oh so this does not works here

Connecting differrent types of devices ( like a hub to a computer ) :- Straight through Cable
Connecting Similar types of devices ( like a computer to a computer ) :- Crossover cable

The computer & the router being differrent types of devices according to this should use a straight through cable, but it uses a Crossover cable. Of, course i know that a console cable is a straight through cable.

So does that also means that the RX, & TX pins of the serial port of the computer are alligned with the RX , & TX ports of the console port of the router's transciever

Webmaster

darkmagic wrote:

Of, course i know that a console cable is a straight through cable.

So does that also means that the RX, & TX pins of the serial port of the computer are alligned with the RX , & TX ports of the console port of the router's transciever

A console cable is actually a roll-over, which means not only 1 and 3, and 2 and 6 are crossed as in a cross-over, but all wires like this:
1-8
2-7
3-6
4-5
5-4
6-3
7-2
8-1

darkmagic

I am so sorry,

a console cable is ofcourse a rollover cable, got all confused there reading so many straight throughs & cross-overs

QUIX0TIC wrote:

Plus, you can always try if you have a router and a laptop. You will need a cross-over!

Question:

cdad2000 wrote:

What type of cable should be used to connect an ethernet host directly to a Router?

Answer:

kyle.tk wrote:

they are right. You use a cross-over cable.

What's going on in this thread or am i drunk

johnnynodough

I think your drunk, mmmm, beer.

darkmagic

Bacardi would be better

johnnynodough

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