cat5e laptop-to-laptop?

[Patrick Boutilier]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 21:57:48 -0400,
>   Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com> 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.
>