crossover between gigE?

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:28:19 -0500, David Gilbert <dgilbert at dclg.ca> said:

> As long as the chipsets are compliant, an 8 wire straight thru cable
> works as both a straight and a crossover.  The GigE standard requires
> this behaviour.

"Crossover" isn't meaningful in the case of GigE: both stations
transmit and receive simultaneously on all four paris.

-GAWollman