On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:26:28PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:49:39PM -0800, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > Ur, you cannot use a crossover cable with gigabit+. It has to be an > > 8 wire cable of type "straight thru" which is the standard twisted > > pair wire. Make sure your cable, if you didn't make it yourself, > > Err, are you sure? Since all 4 pairs are used, I thought most PHY > devices were capable of working out which was which by themselves. > Ie cross-over will be automatically detected.
A cross-over cable is a cable to connect two ethernet (10 Mbit/s) or fast ethernet (100 Mbit/s) NICs and uses only two wire pairs. The other two pairs are usually not connected. A GigE NIC should be able to detect such a cable (or rather: must be able, IIRC) and use it at the maximum allowed speed: 100 Mbit/s. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
