crossover between gigE?

From: Garrett Wollman (wollman_at_khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: 12/22/03

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    Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:01:38 -0500 (EST)
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>

    <<On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:28:19 -0500, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> said:

    > As long as the chipsets are compliant, an 8 wire straight thru cable
    > works as both a straight and a crossover. The GigE standard requires
    > this behaviour.

    "Crossover" isn't meaningful in the case of GigE: both stations
    transmit and receive simultaneously on all four paris.

    -GAWollman

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