On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, john smith wrote: > "standard" time? > > rather than arguing about "standards" on ietf? > Perhaps. It was a ring. If you have constructed a bit of infrastructure yourself, you will know the purpose of these. It was made from commodity hardware... what i had available at the time. In fact, I was out of cat-5 when i closed the ring. I seem to remember soldering a few wires to the back of the network card:) My concern is that this is the proper venue to expound on the idea. Perhaps the IEEE would be better suited in addressing the change you propose. It would indeed make grid networking infinitely simpler, as well as changing the basic topology of the network as a whole. All in all not a bad idea. By the way, who are you? I don't think I have had the pleasure of making your acquaintence... Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: shogunx <shogunx@sleekfreak.ath.cx> > To: john smith <johnsmith0302@hotmail.com> > Cc: <ietf@ietf.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:43 AM > Subject: Re: cables > > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, john smith wrote: > > > > > > > > on ethernet, > > > > > > > > > If all ports were DTE pin configured (same pair everywhere for rx and > tx) > > > > > > and all cables were cross > > > > > > life would be simpler. > > > > I once built a network using nothing but cross-connects. It was nice. > > > > Scott > > > > > > > > -JS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > sleekfreak pirate broadcast > > world tour 2002-3 > > live from daytona beach > > http://sleekfreak.ath.cx > > > > > sleekfreak pirate broadcast world tour 2002-3 live from daytona beach http://sleekfreak.ath.cx