On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Thomas Cameron wrote:
----- 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?
some do... most newer thinkpads, some dells, non-ibook macs etc.
Thomas
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