Figuring out a headless server's zeroconf addr

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jul 22 14:47:02 UTC 2014


On 07/22/2014 10:19 AM, 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.

Well, yes.  It IS a standard cable and the card(s) are doing the 
crossover operation.  I call it a crossover cable to be clear that there 
is no physical switch hardware between the systems.




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