Stephen Alexander wrote:
Autosensing happens at layer 1 (hardware level), and a static address is layer 3 (network). they're not connected. The autosensing issue is a hardware problem. Not to say there are necessarily no workarounds, but a static IP won't do it. Normally a device will havre a (hopefully documented) fallback default, so you might want to look into that and manually set the problem end to match the other.
Thanks for the info. Without a old Asante card or router I can't test any possible fallback. I've imagined that if the router shows an activity light when the mac is turned on but the mac can never find a dhcp address because of autosensing that assigning a static address to the mac and configuring that port of the router may have gotten around the problem. Bit to simplistic I guess. I hope I'm not just repeating your last line. A old dumb hub is always good to have around as a known fallback.
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