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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!news.cs.kuleuven.ac.be!blekul11!frmop11!barilvm!p85025
  2. Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
  3. Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:01:19 IST
  4. From: Doron Shikmoni <P85025@BARILVM.BITNET>
  5. Message-ID: <92205.150119P85025@BARILVM.BITNET>
  6. Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
  7. Subject: Re: 10basT Question
  8. References: <Brps5C.8H9@alsvid.une.edu.au> <53020001@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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  11. In article <53020001@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, karl@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Karl Watanabe)
  12. says:
  13. >
  14. >The 10baseT chip transceiver from AMD automatically has polarity reversal.
  15. >Therefore it wouldn't be necessary to use a crossover cable.
  16.  
  17. I think that would indeed be *polarity* reversal and not Xmt/Rcv reversal
  18. - that is, it would work if you attach the Tx+ to the Rx- etc., but I think
  19. it would *not* cross Xmt/Rcv, so you still not an X-over cable. I might
  20. be wrong here though.
  21.  
  22. Doron
  23.