Patch and Crossover Cables

[Matt1eD]

To connect my router & switch to another switch are some switches clever and accept patch cables instead of crossover, it's just I have a really long Patch allready running to that room.

Cheers
Matt

[Twigman]

yes

[Norky]

Not necessarily. It may have an 'uplink' port which will accept both patch/crossover cables but it is not guaranteed all ports will.

[javalord]

If in documentation it says MDI-X ports, then yes. Otherwise no.

[Matt1eD]

ok. Thanks.

If I connect that to my present router/switch in one, my router will still DHCP IP addresses to all ports of the switch won't it. (e.g. say I bought a 5 port switch; one port on my router will deal with 5 IPs on my new switch)!

Cheers
Matt Dickins

[unrealrocks]

Yeah - that'll work fine, at home we have a single port Cisco router, which goes into our core switch (SMC 1000Mbps) then that goes out into 3 other switches and print servers etc. All works fine with just one DHCP.

[Matt1eD]

awesome. cheers