1. A method for compensating for a permutation of L pairs of cable such that the compensation is localized in a trellis decoder of a receiver, the L pairs of cable correspond to L dimensions of a trellis code associated with the trellis decoder, the trellis code comprising a plurality of code-subsets, the permutation of the L pairs of cable being identified by a Physical Control Sublayer block of the receiver, the method comprising the operations of: (a) generating a plurality of sets of swap indicators based on the permutation of the L pairs of cable, each of the sets of swap indicators corresponding to one of the code-subsets; and (b) remapping the code-subsets based on the corresponding sets of swap indicators.