I'm pretty sure that this wont work. Auto Negotiation will fail. Without getting link pulses from the other side, the MII / PHY will show as down. More here: h

I'm pretty sure that this wont work. Auto Negotiation will fail. Without getting link pulses from the other side, the MII / PHY will show as down. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonegotiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonegotiation You may be able to disable this feature, but it comes at great cost of losing link monitoring. Without bi-directional replication, there's no way of stopping replication during failure, or inducing back pressure. I'm inclined to think that this is a joke of some kind? I don't know.