He's right,
You need a crossover cable for a direct connection, although I'm not sure
I agree with his suggestion that you buy a hub if you only have two
computers. I'd just go with the crossover cable being a college student
myself:)
Keith
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There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness.
Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:32:54PM -0000, Antoniou, Stylianos wrote:
> -> Hi there,
> -> I have configured two PCs (Mandrake7.0 & RedHat6.1) in my college network.
> -> When the network cards are connected to the network sockets everything is
> -> fine, I have access to the www from both and when I ping from one to the
> -> other I can get a connection.
> -> # ping 155.198.91.168
> -> PING 155.198.91.168 (155.198.91.168) from 155.198.91.82 : 56(84) bytes of
> -> data.
> -> 64 bytes from 155.198.91.168 icmp_seq=0 tt164 time=4.2ms
> -> 64 bytes from 155.198.91.168 icmp_seq=0 tt164 time=4.2ms
> -> ...
> -> However, when I directly connect the two network cards with one cable, the
> -> connection is not established, i.e.
> -> # ping 155.198.91.168
> -> PING 155.198.91.168 (155.198.91.168) 56 bytes of data.
> ->
> -> and nothing else. What am I missing?
>
> Possibly what you are missing is that you need a different kind of cable
> to go directly from computer to computer.
>
> To go from a computer to a hub (the normal sort of connection) you need a
> cable that is straight through: pin 1 to pin 1, etc.
>
> To go from computer to computer, or hub to hub, you need a cable which has
> wires crossed over in it, i.e. any given pin is not necessarily wired to
> its opposite number. This type of cable is known by various names,
> including "hub to hub" and "crossover".
>
> I would suggest you buy an eight port 10/100BT hub; they are only about
> $100 these days. If you want to plug back into the college net, get an IP
> address for each machine and plug the cable to the network switch into the
> uplink port of your hub. Or look at IP masquerading.
>
>
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