Direct connect Gigabit/Fast Ethernet

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18 years ago

Wed, Mar 15, 2006 2:43 AM

I need to temporarily directly connect two PCs. One has onboard Gigabit Ethernet, the other has a PCI Fast Ethernet card. Given one would ordinarily connect two Gigabit Ethernet adapters with a straight-through cable and two Fast Ethernet adapters with a crossover cable I'm confused as to which I should use in this instance.

Sorry if this has been asked before but it seems to be the one configuration not addressed (for good or ill) on the Ethernet related sites I've seen.

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posted
18 years ago

Wed, Mar 15, 2006 4:26 AM

Use a crossover. Gigabit autonegotiates the wiremap, 100TX does not, which is why gigabit doesn't require a crossover cable--if you use one it will still be happy.

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