On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, michael hast wrote:
> steve szmidt wrote:
>
> >On Sunday 18 December 2005 19:59, William Coulter wrote:
> >
> >>Now that I have gone winbloz free, how do I network my two computers? One
> >>is called fast and the other is slow. Both are suse 9.3 using kde and I am
> >>using a linksys router. What do I next?
> >
> >If you want them networked you need to buy a couple of windows computers...
> >
> >Hehe, there are a few different ways. But the easy way is to first decide what
> >kind of a network configuration you need. What network components do you have
> >now and what do you want to get? You could just pull a network wire between
> >the two, it would requre a cable with one side being reversed on xmit and
> >recv (transmit and receive) like a null modem network cable.
> >
> I thought I read on one of the Debian websites that it doesn't matter
> whether you use a x-over cable or not between two Linux boxes since the
> kernel is smart enough to transpose a flipped signal... ...maybe I
> misunderstood. It might be worth experimenting with.
If it doesn't matter, it would be because the cards can sense which pair is
Tx and which is Rx. I know a lot of hubs now are autosensing, but didn't
know about NICs.
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