[wellylug] Dummy ethernet crossover?

[Edmund A. Hintz]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004, Ewen McNeill thus spake:

>their receive-only line, because otherwise they were in a catch-22
>situation where neither end would supply carrier because the other end
>wasn't.  (This being a side effect of the 10/100/1000 auto negotiation
>issues amongst other things.)

    This makes good sense... In talking with a few folks in meatspace
here I was thinking the same thing. My next step will probably be to try
turning off the auto-negotiation stuff and see if it works. Will have to
wait for morning though, I left the hack cable back at the office...

    The wee hubs would work, but it's still a bit less elegant than a
simple hacked RJ45 jack, and portability is going to be important for
this particular usage...

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed at hintz.org