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I connect to the net using ethernet. It was running fine couple of days back but now i cannot ping my gateway. The status of the connection says connected but i cannot ping anyone. I installed ethereal and observed that i can recieve broadcast packets like osp, arp, stp etc but not a single tcp packet.
the technician from my isp came to my place today, he tested the cable in a cable tester which displayed that out of the 8 wires inside a lan cable, wires
2 - 8 wires were good but wire 1 was not. He said that he will have to change the ethernet cable which would take atleast 5 - 10 days.
Now i know that out of 8 wires only 4 wires are used in an ethernet lan. What i want to know is that can i swap the wire which is damaged with a wire which is not used. Will this work. Do we need all the 8 wires working properly for an ethernet lan to work
PC - Straight Cable- - Switch
Pin 1 TX+ -------------- Pin 1 RX+
Pin 2 TX- -------------- Pin 2 RX-
Pin 3 RX+ ------------- Pin 3 TX+
Pin 6 RX- ------------- Pin 6 TX-
Btw do you guys know any other good networking forum.
the technician from my isp came to my place today, he tested the cable in a cable tester which displayed that out of the 8 wires inside a lan cable, wires
2 - 8 wires were good but wire 1 was not. He said that he will have to change the ethernet cable which would take atleast 5 - 10 days.
Now i know that out of 8 wires only 4 wires are used in an ethernet lan. What i want to know is that can i swap the wire which is damaged with a wire which is not used. Will this work. Do we need all the 8 wires working properly for an ethernet lan to work
PC - Straight Cable- - Switch
Pin 1 TX+ -------------- Pin 1 RX+
Pin 2 TX- -------------- Pin 2 RX-
Pin 3 RX+ ------------- Pin 3 TX+
Pin 6 RX- ------------- Pin 6 TX-
Btw do you guys know any other good networking forum.