Re: cat5e laptop-to-laptop?

["Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Boutilier" <boutilpj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: cat5e laptop-to-laptop?


> 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.

Do laptops come with gig-E NICs?

Thomas