On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:04:58AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > > > > I've ran many jumbogram tests of machines connected with a cross-over cable > > and em devices at each end. If you've got a swtch in the middle make sure it > > does the right thing. > > Just a minor note: GigE should not require a crossover cable. It's > supposed to work to connect two GigE adapters with a straight-thru > cable. I verified this with two Intel em NICs, quite a while ago. > As I recall, when I used a crossover cable, I could not get the > adapters to go to 1000, only 100. That might have been the cable, > or not.
I can confirm it works equally well with crossover as with straight cable. -- Michal Mertl _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
