On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 10:21 AM, Michael Winter wrote: > While true, what you've said doesn't cover the fact that the newer > Macs have auto-sensing ethernet ports. That is, they "sense" the > connection and do the crossover themselves if necessary. For a list of > Macs that can do this and more info, see > <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42717> . Just a nit, but what you're describing is what the link refers to as Auto-MDIX. Auto-sensing is actually the ability to determine whether both machines can support 10BaseT, 100BaseT, or 1000BaseT (gigabit) ethernet connection speed. Mark