[olug] MDI/MDIX autodetection (was nonnetwork)

[Neal Rauhauser]

Phil Brutsche wrote:

>Neal Rauhauser wrote:
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>>  I've never seen and I don't believe it makes any sense for their to be 
>>an autodetecting PCI or integrated NIC.
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>Apparently you've never worked with gigabit ethernet ;)
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   That is a trunking technology. Workstations seldom need 10 mbit, let 
alone 100, and there was nothing at all wrong with 2.5 mbit Arcnet :-) 
All of this talk of newfangled stuff will scare my primary mobile 
machine ... a Celeron 700 laptop.



>>  Making a crossover takes all of five minutes if you've got ends and a 
>>crimp tool ...
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>... and you don't mind re-doing a couple times because you don't do it
>frequently enough to keep your skills up to snuff.
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