That has not been true since the 100mbit days. In 100mbit days one
pair was for sending and one was for receiving data, so a crossover
mattereed
I have never seen a gbit adapter that needs a crossover. All 4 pairs
in gbit are both sending and receiving so it is trivial in
software/firmware to make it work.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 2:05 PM Thomas Dineen <tdineen(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Quite Sure: Ethernet adapters MUST have auto-crossover (Modern ones
> probably do)
>
> or you MUST have crossover cable!
>
> See:
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
>
>
> On 10/11/2023 11:50 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >> Yes: But you MUST use a crossover cable for direct connect if your
> >> Ethernet adapters
> >>
> >> do not support auto-crossover!
> > Are you sure.
> > I have been told that now the cable did not have to be crossed!
> >
> >>
> >> On 10/11/2023 11:30 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> >>> On 10/11/23 11:25, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >>>> I wish to set up a network of 2 computers.
> >>>> What is the recipes?
> >>> That is a extremely vague request. You need to provide a lot more
> >>> information about what you're trying to do.
> >>>
> >>> If it's literally two computers talking only to each other, then
> >>> connect an ethernet cable from one to the other and give each one a
> >>> static address in the same subnet.
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