On Saturday, Sep 20, 2003, at 12:44 US/Central, David Robarts wrote:
Do you have to tell the PC that it is being dirrectly connected to annother
machine. I would think that using an ethernet crossover cable would make
both machines recognize that they are on a 'network'. Just because the
network only includes 2 devices, doesn't mean that protocals for networks
with multiple devices won't work. You may want to assign IP addresses to
each machine, so they don't try to find them over the network (and you don't
have to go looking arround to find out what they decided to assign
themselves). Of course you can always just throw in a hub between them to
have a 'real' network.
You have to assign each machine an IP address on the same subnet. The easiest way to do this is to choose something like 192.168.19.1 for one and 192.168.19.2 for the other (since 19 is mathematically the Most Random Number, it won't already be in use on your machines). Any reasonable OS will know that the network mask for such an address should be 255.255.255.0. If it doesn't know, set it.
You have to do the same thing if you use a hub. The only difference in that case is you don't use crossover cables--the crossing over happens in the hub.
Mike Beede
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