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Ahh, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of it, however I'd seen hints in a few spec sheets that now make much more sense. Thanks Nick On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:28:11PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote: > > er, no. GigE over copper autodetects crossovers, so a standard cable > > will work anyway. Actually this has been backported to some 100MB > > switches now (presumably use same io interfaces) so crossover cables are > > fast disappearing. You can even stick a non crossover cable between a > > 100MB pci card and a GigE one and it will work. > > Yep. This is called auto-polarity detection, FWIW. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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