On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Kevin K. Sochacki wrote:
> Subject: Re: Pinging Cross over wire network revisited
>
> Try forcing both cards to 10Mbs, every cross over cable I've tried with
> 100Mbs never worked.
That's because you mispaired the cable.
10baseT is so robust that I've seen it work over miswired cables that had no
DC connection, only the mispaired cables acting as a 1:1 transformer.
But when you negotiate up to 100baseTx the link stops working.
> > [root@office2 /root]# ifconfig eth0
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E8:D7:4C:21
> > inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:2581 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Here packets are being both sent and received without error.
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