Ethernet or VG Anylan - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Nov 2005

Bert Thomas <bert at brothom.nl> wrote:
...
  Gil Carrick wrote:
  This offer on eBay is unclear to me. 8727096878 

 It says Ethernet and it says VG AnyLan. I know VG AnyLan was supposed to
 replace Ethernet, but I was not aware that anybody ever called them both
 things.  
 Be aware: you need 'special' 100VG switches for these cards to be able 
 to use them. You can't use them with a cross-cable.  
The 100VG Ethernet cards use all 4 pairs of a CAT3 cable to get 100Mbps
bandwidth. As such they are NOT compatible with Fast Ethernet switches.

However, I have a crossover cable that I have used to interconnect two
Intel 100VG cards.  This is the crossover cable:
	gr-w  	or-w
	gr	or
	or-w	gr-w
	br-w	bl
	br	bl-w
	or	gr
	bl	br-w
	bl-w	br

**vp