I don't think that's guaranteed. I needed to crimp a gigabit/fully-crossed crossover cable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable#Fully_crossed) just the other day for direct use between an apu2 and an older MacBook. While I certainly hadn't needed one in the preceding 15+ years, not every two gigabit interfaces will link up every time, across every OS.
That being said, I would imagine no media would be detected if that were the issue here. Brian Conway On Mon, Mar 28, 2022, at 7:30 PM, Ariel Popper wrote: > I don't knwo about you, but it's been well over a decade since I saw an > ethernet adapter that didn't auto-sense the cable. Also, I do not think > that gigabit (1000-Base-T) ever requires a crossover cable. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-MDIX#Auto_MDI-X > > > On Mon Mar 28, 2022 at 8:16 PM EDT, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 02:09:35PM +0200, Stephan Mending wrote: >> > Hi Stuart, >> > >> > I am not using VLANs. This is a direct link from one machine to another. >> > No switch, no nothing in between. >> > What information can I supply that would be of interest to you? >> >> Umm... not even a hub in between? >> You are using a crossover cable, right? >> >> --patrick
