* on the Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:54:56PM -0500, Chris Mauritz was tippering:
> 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.
