Re: Crossover for 100mbs

Dave Wreski (dave@nic.com)
Sun, 3 Aug 1997 20:45:34 -0400 (EDT)

> I do not personally have experience with 100Mb cabling, but this did
> come up just last Thursday while I was chatting with our number one
> network guy, and he said that while we do it all the time for 10Mb
> that we've never been able to get 100Mb to work reliably (at all?)
> with crossovers. Mind you, this is essentially apocryphal, but I
> place great faith in this guy as knowing his own business. You might
> need to get a hub... I believe it was something about there not being
> any timing available when you use a crossover.

Interestingly enough, I just spoke to a friend of mine who thinks the same
thing. I did a little more searching, though, and found this:

http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/100quickref/ch10qr_6.html

It basically has the same diagram as the 10mbs crossover cable.

So, how do I force the 3c905 to do 100mbs?

Dave