Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:12:14 -0600 From: "Mike Oligny" <moligny@kanotech.com> To: "Brian" <ircd@wrath.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: duplex mismatch or something bad like that? Message-ID: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044AF9@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net>
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> <snip> >=20 > > 6k/second is not a lot of fun. Especially after doing stupid things > > like making new cables thinking that the old ones might=20 > have split pairs > > or something. (Everyone I work with seems to think that it doesn't > > matter which wires you put where when making cables, as=20 > long as they go > > straight through... is this a common misconception? Grrr...) >=20 > A lot of people are used to the niceties of newer nics that=20 > are smarter than > the people that make the cables. I'm not referring to incorrect polarity... I don't think even the newest/best NIC can compensate for a split pair down two hundred feet of CAT5 cable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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