jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go
Michal Mertl
mime at traveller.cz
Fri Oct 31 06:13:53 PST 2003
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Barney Wolff wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:04:58AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
> >
> > I've ran many jumbogram tests of machines connected with a cross-over cable
> > and em devices at each end. If you've got a swtch in the middle make sure it
> > does the right thing.
>
> Just a minor note: GigE should not require a crossover cable. It's
> supposed to work to connect two GigE adapters with a straight-thru
> cable. I verified this with two Intel em NICs, quite a while ago.
> As I recall, when I used a crossover cable, I could not get the
> adapters to go to 1000, only 100. That might have been the cable,
> or not.
I can confirm it works equally well with crossover as with straight cable.
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Michal Mertl
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