cat5e laptop-to-laptop?

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Jan 18 18:07:56 UTC 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Boutilier" <boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: cat5e laptop-to-laptop?


> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 21:57:48 -0400,
>>   Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>Can I take two computers (laptops both) and plug them together directly 
>>>from one nic to another with a "standard" ethernet cable? Or do I need 
>>>a crossover cable or something to do that? And if I have the correct 
>>>cable, will the two machines do some sort of peer-to-peer networking 
>>>more or less automagically or will it be difficult to set up? One runs 
>>>FC2, the other Mac OS X 10.3.7.
> 
> If they are both Gig nics a crossover cable is not needed.

Do laptops come with gig-E NICs?

Thomas




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