[lug] NIC Question

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Mar 18 23:17:25 MST 2002


Eight pairs?  :-)

You mean eight individual wires, I hope!  :-)

(Never seen an RJ-45 I could cram 16 wires into!)

For 10BaseT and 100BaseTX ethernet, only pins 1,2,3 and 6 are used anyway.
One pair each direction.

--
Nate


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Timothy C. Klein
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:39 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] NIC Question
>
>
> > >may have high collision rates, but it works OK.
> >
> > Some cards (many newer cards) will do the swap automatically,
> so you can
> > use a regular cable.  And you won't have *any* collsions, since each
> > system will transmit over a separate pair of wires.
> >
> Hmm, I guess I was confused.  8 pairs, Tx and Rx for each machine, of
> their own.  Go figure.
>
> Tim
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