Dumb networking question...

[Hewitt Tech]

This is true for the 3Com device as well. It autosenses all ports including
the WAN port and the LAN ports... This would explain why my VPN tunnel
connected no matter whether I had a straight through or a crossover cable.

-alex

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From: "Derek Martin" <gnhlug at sophic.org>
To: "GNHLUG mailing list" <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Dumb networking question...


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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:36:40PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > This is not entirely true.  Many switches have ports that auto-sense
> > > whether they should be crossed over or straight through...
> >
> > Never heard of this - got any models I can look up??  Cool technology
> > rules.
>
> The Netgear FS105 does this, on its uplink port (even though it

As it happens, it does this on ALL ports, not just the uplink port.

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Derek D. Martin
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