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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:35:14 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:28:11PM +0000, Justin Cormack wrote:
> 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.

Yep.  This is called auto-polarity detection, FWIW.
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