Re: Forwarded mail... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 02:54:33 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Michael Barnes shaped the electrons to say...
>Actually, he will be unable to plug a phone jack into an ethernet plug as
>the
>ethernet is a RJ-45 plug and the phone is an RJ-11. Different sizes. If

No. it is quite easy. RJ-11 is 6 pin, RJ-45 is 8 pin. Other that that they
are identical. I routinely use an RJ-11 patch cable for ISDN in an RJ-45
jack if I don't have an RJ-45 patch cable handy. Since ISDN uses just the
center 2 pins, it works fine.

Now, plugging an RJ-45 cable into an RJ-11 jack won't work...

-MZ

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