[Tfug] Yet another poser

[George Cohn]

Rich wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:48 pm, Rich wrote:
>
>   - Many chipsets can re-cross a crossover cable automagically. My  
> PowerBook, for example, can be connected to a standard network with a  
> crossover cable. Similarly, I can connect this to another computer  
> (Mac or otherwise) with a straight through cable. I suspect some PoE  
> devices might work this way too, so although it's *wrong* and a quick  
> hack to use a crossover cable for infrastructure, if it *can* be  
> supported, then the cable should be wired appropriately.

Generally speaking, only consumer grade devices will automatically 
determine the connection with any cable.  I suspect this was done as a 
customer service call avoidance issue as most all commercial stuff 
including the Cisco stuff I am familiar with *requires* that you use the 
properly configured cable.

George Cohn