On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 06:59, Joseph Mack wrote: > The wrt54g wap comes with 4 ethernet ports for your LAN. There > are no link LEDs on the ports (which didn't impress me). Also > there was no X - straight switch on one of the ports to allow > me to daisy chain without a crossover cable (this didn't > impress me either). I do a wifi event in a large field and > I need to have the equivalent of a hub every 100m or so > to get to the other side. If I couldn't daisy chain the wrt54g's > then I would need to have a hub/switch with every wrt54g. > Having 3 wap11's I wasn't expecting much from LinkSys in > the wrt54g and what I saw fitted my expectations. > > So I called up Intrex about the switches that someone on > this list had recommended to find that the Intrex switches > didn't have an X - straight switch because they didn't need > one - all the ports were autosense. I didn't know such things > existed and it occured to me to test the wrt54g ports for > autosense.
Actually, this is pretty much standard on all new switches and routers and such. The days of having to worry about cross-over cables or straight-through are happily numbered. > It turns out that _all_ the LAN ports on the wrt54g are autosense. > You can plug 2 wrt54g's together and ping through both of them to > a 3rd device. I did this test to see if the two devices would > flap, but they appear not to - one of them must decide to be > straight and the other crossover. I don't know precisely how that part works, but I'm sure there's a spec on it somewhere. :-) Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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