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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>
Cc: nick@snowman.net, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>,
	Sampson Fung <sampson@attglobal.net>,
	Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:35:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021223173514.GA19833@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1040664496.7156.112.camel@lotte>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-23 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-20 13:45 OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card? Jurgen Kramer
2002-12-20 18:29 ` Ben Greear
2002-12-20 18:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-20 20:15   ` Wes Felter
2002-12-20 21:06     ` Joel Jaeggli
2002-12-20 21:08 ` Dax Kelson
2002-12-20 21:13 ` Eric Weigle
2002-12-21 12:44 ` Jurgen Kramer
2002-12-21 17:28   ` Sampson Fung
2002-12-23 12:17     ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-12-23 14:50       ` nick
2002-12-23 17:23         ` Eric Weigle
2002-12-23 17:28         ` Justin Cormack
2002-12-23 17:35           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-24  1:43             ` nick
2002-12-23 18:57           ` Daniel Egger
2002-12-25  6:03           ` David Lloyd
2002-12-25 13:50             ` Gerhard Mack
2002-12-25 15:23               ` Michael Clark
2002-12-25 17:23                 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-12-25 17:33                   ` Sean Neakums
2002-12-27  9:45                     ` daveman
2002-12-27  9:59                       ` John Bradford
     [not found] <fa.io6mq9v.11gou0n@ifi.uio.no>
2002-12-31  2:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-31  8:47   ` Filip djMedrzec Zyzniewski
2003-01-09 16:15     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-09 16:39       ` John Bradford

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