From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 26 14:12:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net (edtn016788.hs.telusplanet.net [161.184.241.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698C937B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 14:12:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from moligny@kanotech.com) content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: duplex mismatch or something bad like that? Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:12:14 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <76928F3E231DE4478876350F08358336044AF9@kt-exchange.edmonton.kanotech.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: duplex mismatch or something bad like that? Thread-Index: AcDmHm9tGYMP8HOpQ2W1aAefH74DYQACauPg From: "Mike Oligny" To: "Brian" , Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >=20 > > 6k/second is not a lot of fun. Especially after doing stupid things > > like making new cables thinking that the old ones might=20 > have split pairs > > or something. (Everyone I work with seems to think that it doesn't > > matter which wires you put where when making cables, as=20 > long as they go > > straight through... is this a common misconception? Grrr...) >=20 > A lot of people are used to the niceties of newer nics that=20 > are smarter than > the people that make the cables. I'm not referring to incorrect polarity... I don't think even the newest/best NIC can compensate for a split pair down two hundred feet of CAT5 cable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message