26 Jan
2006
26 Jan
'06
1:54 a.m.
Bruno S. Delbono wrote:
- on the Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:40:41PM -0800, Akop Pogosian was tippering:
I am trying to connect two workstations (CentOS 3&4) directly using a straight through cat 5e cable with a crossover adapter on one of the ends. Both hosts have gigabit-capable ethernet card. According to lspci host 1 has:
IIRC, one does not need a crossover cable to connect between two gigabit capable hosts.
You can give it a shot.
Perhaps I'm just dense, but how would two ethernet cards talk to eachother over a straight ethernet cable? I don't profess to be an expert in gigabit ethernet protocols, but I believe it HAS to be a crossover cable if you want to directly connect two hosts. If that's not the case, someone please correct me.
Best regards,