On 14 Jun 2007 at 3:39, der Mouse wrote:
They must be able to at least tolerate it without
frying; that's
basically what you get if you connect two hosts with a straight cable -
or a host and hub with a crossed cable - so there'd be a lot of toasted
hardware if it weren't at least relatively harmless.
Anyway, what you're suggesting would connect
all the Tx pairs
together (A to B, then B to C).
Doh! Of course. Oh well. So much for cheap pseudo-token-ring
Ethernets. :-/
Er, isn't what you're suggesting very akin to RS-485?
Cheers,
Chuck