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From: nick@snowman.net
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 20:43:51 -0500 (EST)
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Which Gigabit ethernet card?
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Ahh, thanks for the clarification.  I wasn't aware of it, however I'd seen
hints in a few spec sheets that now make much more sense.
	Thanks
		Nick

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 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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