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More info?)
yes, it's a cisco related course.
I think this is what I need, thx very much.
"McSpreader" <invalid@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Vanguard" <vanguard_news@NIXgawab.com> wrote in
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> > "Adrian" <a@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just enrol for the course,
> >
> > WHICH course? There are lots of courses offered by many
> > schools, instructors, and wannabe teachers.
> >
> >> and I need to buy 3 kind of cables
> >
> > YOU have to buy the hardware to take the course? Since you have
> > to provide the hardware for this hardware-related course (since
> > you posted in a hardware-related group), do you get to keep them
> > after you finish the course regardless of your grade, or do they
> > get to keep your property that they should have provided in the
> > first place?
> >
> >> cross over
> >
> > Probably a host-to-host network cable.
> >
> >> straight through
> >
> > Maybe that is a regular network cable.
> >
> >> and console cable.
> >
> > Sounds like the monitor (also called a console). Geez, not only
> > do you have to provide the network cables, but they require you
> > to supply them with part of the computer's hardware before you
> > can use it? I sure don't want to go to that school.
> >
>
> More guesswork:
>
> Could this be a nets & comms course specialising in Cisco stuff? In
> which case you may need a special cable(s) to connect a PC to the
> console port of many of their routers etc.
>
> eg:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/14.html#topic17
>
> It would also make sense that the students provide their own 'tools
> of the trade'.