Support for direct connection without cross cable

[Arief M Utama <arief utama gmail com>]

Hi all,


I'm just wondering, and might as well send the message on the list, in
case someone has more ideas.

On recent windows, with recent network cards, I noticed (on a couple
laptops) that windows can setup networking to a direct-connected to
another device (tested couple of times with network-drives, such as WD
MyBook World) with simple straight forward ethernet cable. No crossing
needed.

I'm wondering if NM (or linux?) can support this as well?

I'd appreciate any pointers on this issue.

Thanks for your time :)


All the best.
-arief