On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 4:26 PM Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > A comment regarding no loop. It is 1000BaseT port. It is physically > impossible to connect two LAN cards without the switch. > Yes, for older 10BaseT or 100BaseT (10Mbps or 100Mbps respectively) it > was possible to use special "crossed" cable to connect Tx to Rx and vice > versa. However not for gigabit connection. > It is completely not mainframe-specific issue, it is just Ethernet.
Sure you can. I connected at 1Gbps two PCs without a switch about a hour ago. A crossover cable would have worked but was not needed. Auto MDI/MDI-X is part of 1000BaseT and optional but common for 100BaseT devices. I have not needed to use a crossover cable since the 10BaseT times. Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
