<<On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:34:15 -0500, Barney Wolff <barney_at_databus.com> said: > Just a minor note: GigE should not require a crossover cable. It's > supposed to work to connect two GigE adapters with a straight-thru > cable. I verified this with two Intel em NICs, quite a while ago. This should hardly be surprising, since 1000BASE-TX transmits and receives bidirectionally on all four pairs simultaneously. > As I recall, when I used a crossover cable, I could not get the > adapters to go to 1000, only 100. That might have been the cable, > or not. That's at least conceivable; I don't know enough about the wire protocol to tell whether that's supposed to happen or not. -GAWollmanReceived on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 08:48:36 UTC
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