[tech] CAT5 on patch port 8 to hub

[Mikolaj J. Habryn]

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 12:45, David Luyer wrote:
> well just autosense which wire goes to which wire.  Then they realised
> how cheap and convenient it actually was to just make all ethernet
> connections between their switches just work, and were intending to,
> or probably have by now, backport it to their 10/100Mbps switches.

Hmm. So what happens when you connect a NetGear to any other switch
brand and it starts wiggling kilovolts of morse code across the wires to
work out which ones are actually twisted together? :)

m.