From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 14:14:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC6516A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:14:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98B4943D76 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 17702 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2003 22:13:40 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by laptop.tenebras.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2003 22:13:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3FE4C993.9080506@tenebras.com> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:13:39 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, zh-tw, zh-cn, fr, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein References: <20031220151122.GQ60229@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20031220151122.GQ60229@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crossover between gigE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:14:09 -0000 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? > > I was under the impression that copper gigE cards were auto-sensing for polarity and it didn't matter whether you use a straight or crossover. -- "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mahabharata