No need to verify if you are using a crossover with a different network address segment as the LAN and you have the name of the second machine in the hosts file.
It will ONLY use that for resolution. IE Comp 2 is on the local network and the crossover. Comp 2 crossover address is 10.0.0.2 and the lan is 192.168.1.2 If input comp2 10.0.0.2 in the host file it wont find comp2 if the crossover is down. (use of the host file isn't recursive, if it finds an entry there is stops, even if that machine isn't up.) Does that make sense? -Troy -----Original Message----- From: Bill Krumel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 12:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: crossover cable between 2 boxes to transfer files I have 2 boxes and each contains 2 NICs. The first is a 100mbps NIC used for the network and hooked into a switch. The second NIC is a gigabit card. Between the 2 gigabit cards I have a crossover cable so those 2 boxes can talk at gigabit speed. Each gigabit card is assigned an IP address and entered into the boxes host file. My question is how do I verify that when I transfer files between these 2 boxes that it is using the crossover cable and talking gigabit. I am just using an unc path to access a shared folder on the other box and then copying the files. I thought by entering in the IP addresses in the hosts file it would force the 2 boxes to use the crossover cable. Am I correct? What would I use to verify? thanks, Bill ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
