Bruno Wolff III wrote:
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.
If they are both Gig nics a crossover cable is not needed.
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.
