Figuring out a headless server's zeroconf addr

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 22 22:19, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/22/14 00:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > Crossover cable.  Is that enough of a 'same network'? 
> 
> FWIW, I've not seen the need to use crossover cables in years.  Even
> when connected peer-to-peer the HW is now capable to detect this
> situation and auto configure itself using standard cables.

Depends on the network speed of the involved NICs, usually.  10 or 100
Mbit/s NICs typically need crossover cables, 1G NICs and faster provide
auto-negotiation(*).


Corinna


(*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Dependent_Interface#Auto_MDI-X