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dfranke on Feb 25, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: $100 Linux wall-wart launches

You'd have trouble with speed autonegotiation, though. That wasn't developed until 1995 and GigE won't work at all with peers that don't support it.

jerf on Feb 25, 2009 [–]

Thank you, good point. Looking at the protocol on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonegotiation) it looks very reverse-engineerable with not much work, but yeah, it won't work out of the box.

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