From: Luigi Rizzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:11:22AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Any suggestion of the kind of cable one should look for at Frys > > to run between two gigE card (intel em0) to function as a crossover? > > A straight cable with all 4 pairs wired will work. GigE (and > many modern > 100Mbit switches) have auto polarity detection. > > cheers > luigi
One caveat on that: if you force any of the phy parameters (e.g. speed, duplex), this defeats the auto polarity (MDI/MDX) detection on em, bge, and maybe others. ie to use the technique above you need to have autoselect enabled for duplex and speed. --don _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
