cat5e laptop-to-laptop?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Thomas Cameron wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Boutilier" <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:38 AM
> Subject: Re: cat5e laptop-to-laptop?
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>> 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.
>
> Do laptops come with gig-E NICs?

some do... most newer thinkpads, some dells, non-ibook macs etc.

> Thomas
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>

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