Ethernet or VG Anylan

[Vassilis Prevelakis]

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