Default enabling of UTP Auto MDI/MDI-X often raises potential issues with NIC and switch products.
My take is that with consumer and SOHO based products it is a safe bet to enable. For enterprise and SME markets, it is best left documented, but disabled. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Richardson Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Nice design, those Macs [was: Power Mac...] > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:31:49AM -0400, Brian Lloyd wrote: >> Tim Pozar wrote: >> >Its funny that Apple never talks about these neat little >> features. >> >> It is documented in the manual. > > I was refering to marketing. Most folks (and on a stretch, more Mac folks) wouldn�t even know the use for a crossover cable - Apple will just silently use anything that enables they're mantra of, "Make it easy enough you don't have to think about it, ever!" So, one thing we debated at work - if you have a computer that auto-crossovers, and a device that auto-crossovers (say, a printer), would they possibly get into an uplink fight? Basically, is the timing, etc, defined by a standard, or is it vendor-dependant? -Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
