Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:35:14 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card? |
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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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