I suspect what I'm looking for is ONE 3 ft piece of terminated Cat6 cable ;) I have two laptops - one (a Lenovo T43) speaks only WinXP Pro, the other (a Lenovo T430) only Debian Jessie. Sometime back I attempted to have them communicate via ethernet - hence the availability of the Cat6 cable. As far as I got was both sides recognized that electrically the other existed. My LAN knowledge is ~= "null set". My non-productive web search turned up only references that PRESUMED the goal was connecting a multiplicity of devices. I could not sift the wheat from the chaff. At power on the WinXP reports as a unconnected ethernet Host. If it wants to be top dog, so be it. My goal is to transfer some large data files from the WinXP box to the Debian box. Can someone point me to appropriate educational material that is focused on connecting EXACTLY two computers by exactly one piece of cable. There shall be ABSOLUTELY no mention of hubs, routers, switches, etc. Gee, any hint I'm frustrated ;/ TIA
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