My brother dropped by the other day and I was showing him my little two computer network. "Oh, did you buy a little hub?", says he. "Why no, I'm just using a crossover cable," relplies I. "Crossover ...

Apparantly it's a feature called Auto MDI-X, and is available on a few network cards out there, usually gigabit NICs and priced near $100. Thanks for the responses.

The 4I71 stackable PC/104-plus card combines a 100BaseT Ethernet MAC (media-access controller) with a nine-port switch. Supporting autonegotiation, the eight Ethernet ports allow connections with half ...