Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

Jeff Garzik
2002-12-23T17:27:09Z

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.