[tech] CAT5 on patch port 8 to hub

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2002, David Luyer wrote:
> 
> > and then you made a crossover cable and had to remember the order! :)
> 
> No, just upgrade to the NetGear switches which autosense cables :-)
> 
> When NetGear were developing GigE switches which use all 4 pair they
> realised that nobody had any idea what a GigE crossover should look
> like, all the cables ever built would be different, and they may as
> 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.

.. or, just use late-model macs, where their ethernet ports are
crossover-autosensing.

God, it makes life much easier.


Adrian