crossover cable, 10mbit and 100mbit cards

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  16 years ago

  by qwijibow

  Chris Stones

  England Nottingham, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  is there anything wrong with plugging a 10mbit card straight into a 100mbit card with vrossoever cable ?
  

  
  today has been soo frustrating !
  

  
  i networked 2 pc's together with crossover cable (direct net card -> net card link)
  

  
  slackware on 1 pc, knoppix on the other.
  

  
  i plugged them both up,
  ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 up (given to slackware)
  ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 up (given to knoppix)
  

  
  i pinged slackware from knoppix, and vice versa.
  wrked PERFECT. ssh worked, telnet CUPS.
  all networking was fine...
  

  
  so i rebooted the slackmachine into windows (dual boot)
  and... oops... it didnt work any-more.
  

  
  and it hasnt since !
  

  
  i booted linux up again... but nothing !
  

  
  cant even ping !
  

  
  when i plug the cables up, and un plug them, 'dmesg' knows that im plugging and un-pluggind.. it gives messages like "eth0 up, 10mbit half duplex" the card is a 100MBIT in slackware, but only 10 in the other machine, so i suppose its doing it for compatability.
  

  
  whats gone wrong ?
  

  
  are there issues with using crossover cable with network cards of different speeds ?
  

  
  ive tested the cable, which works perfect on other machines that are already setup.
  

  
  WHATS WRONG.. this is annoying the h3ll outa me.
  

  
  any1 got any ideas ?
  

  
  

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