On 18 Nov 99, at 11:10, Rick Glazier wrote:

> Are all these "outside" colors STANDARD for "ALL" CAT5 cables?
> If so, what does Yellow cable mean?  (I passed up buying some, new.)
> How do you verify a 100m cable with just the cable markings?

  No.  On my home network, I have some blue and a couple green.  At
my old job, we used yellow for the "internal" network and blue for
"externl"; where I am now, we use blue for internal and DMZ and red
for unprotected.
  The one exception I can think of is that I've never seen a retail
crossover cable (as opposed to one fabricated in-house with a
crimper) that wasn't orange, or a regular Cat5 that was.

David G

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