1000baseTX?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > The IEEE is quite clear on the fact that Gigabit Ethernet on Cat5 UTP
> > is called 1000Base-T. See for instance Chapter 34, "Introduction to
> > 1000 Mb/s baseband network", in IEEE 802.3-2002, available from
> > 
> > 	http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.3.html
> > 
> > So using 1000baseTX as the name in FreeBSD is clearly wrong.
> 
> Probably just as right or wrong as 99% of the NIC cards docs.

Well, Doug White asked for documentation. When it comes to the Gigabit
Ethernet, I believe the IEEE standards are about as authoritative as you
can get.

If you check the specs for some of the Intel Gigabit Ethernet cards,
e.g.

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/data_sheets/pro1000gt_da.pdf

you'll see that they refer to 100base-TX, but 1000base-T.

So I stand by my claim that 1000base-T is clearly more correct than
1000baseTX. It would be nice to get this fixed - however, it is a
minor point and I certainly believe that there are other tasks that
are more important.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no