Marco Shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> Can I network two computers together...without a hub? If I install a NIC
> card in both computers and attach the cable between them, will they be able
> to talk to each other like a 'windows direct cable connection'.
The Window direct cable connection is a parallel port connection,
I believe, which has the added bonus of being incompatible with
Linux's PLIP support.
> I have two Token Ring cards and I want to have my RH box use TCP/IP to talk
> to my Win95 computer with this simple setup. Wouldn't I just have to setup
> two different IPs between the two...and it should work?
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, to connect them without a hub you'd need
a crossover token ring cable. (Similarly, if you wanted to connect
10/100BT Ethernet without a hub, you'd need a crossover ethernet
cable.) These are different then the cables used to connect to a hub.
For the pinouts, in case you wanted to make your own, see
http://www.netcomsystems.com/app_note/app003.htm. You can
surely buy a crossover cable for some amount if Token-Ring ones
exist (ethernet ones would be much easier to find...).
Bill
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