On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 21:57:48 -0400, Trevor Smith <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can I take two computers (laptops both) and plug them together directly > from one nic to another with a "standard" ethernet cable? Or do I need > a crossover cable or something to do that? And if I have the correct > cable, will the two machines do some sort of peer-to-peer networking > more or less automagically or will it be difficult to set up? One runs > FC2, the other Mac OS X 10.3.7. There is some networking equipment that can detect the type of connection, but most likely you will need a crossocer cable. You can either set up the machines to use a point to point connection or configure them to have different addresses on the same subnet. Doing the latter is probably easier with FC.
