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- From: seifert@netcom.com (Rich Seifert)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
- Subject: Re: 10basT Question
- Summary: No, not quirtete
- Message-ID: <52gmhtf.seifert@netcom.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:10:17 GMT
- References: <Brps5C.8H9@alsvid.une.edu.au> <53020001@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <53020001@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, karl@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Karl Watanabe) writes:
- > In comp.dcom.lans.ethernet, jonathan@netcom.com (Jonathan Ridder) writes:
- >
- > > Though this is not usually done (and may not officially be supported?),
- > > you can connect them with a crossover cable. The crossover cable is
- > > wired so that the receive pairs connect to the transmit pairs. If I
- > > recall, this would be pin 1 to pin 3 and pin 2 to pin6.
- >
- > The 10baseT chip transceiver from AMD automatically has polarity reversal.
- > Therefore it wouldn't be necessary to use a crossover cable.
- >
-
- No, this won't help. The polarity reversal function will correct for
- a twisted pair which is connected backwards, but will not swap the
- transmit and receive pairs!
-
- (Ethernet cares about the polarity of the TP because it uses pure
- Manchester encoding, which is absolute-level sensitive. Token Ring
- uses differential Manchester, which is sensitive only to transitions,
- and not absolute levels. So an inverted TP requires no "fixing" in
- Token Ring. The tradeoff is a more complex decoder.)
-
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