cat5e laptop-to-laptop?

[Patrick Boutilier]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
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> ----- 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?
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>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 
> Do laptops come with gig-E NICs?
> 

Toshiba Tecra M2 does (e1000) .

> Thomas
>