[MacDV] Re: Transferring .mov files from mac to pc

Mark O'Brien rmobrien at mac.com
Mon Apr 21 10:37:54 PDT 2003


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



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