Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?

From: Daniel Egger (degger@fhm.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 13:57:17 EST


Am Mon, 2002-12-23 um 18.28 schrieb Justin Cormack:

> er, no. GigE over copper autodetects crossovers, so a standard cable
> will work anyway. Actually this has been backported to some 100MB
> switches now (presumably use same io interfaces) so crossover cables are
> fast disappearing. You can even stick a non crossover cable between a
> 100MB pci card and a GigE one and it will work.

Woah, new (actually useful) features; can you say "Apple"?

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel


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