You can't connect two boxes directly with an RJ45 cable. You need either a hub between them or a crossover cable. That is, the "send" wires from one box have to be connected to the "receive" wires from the other box, and vice versa. If you're only going to be using two computers on this network, I would recommend getting a crossover cable (or making your own). It's cheaper than buying a hub. There are lots of pages on the web that will show you how to do this (although not necessarily for linux). Just go to your favorite search engine and try something like
+crossover +"peer to peer" +network Making a crossover basically requires cutting the green and orange wires (both solid and striped) inside your CAT5 cable and crosswiring them. In other words... End #1 End #2 striped green ---> striped orange solid green ---> solid orange striped orange ---> striped green solid orange ---> solid green all the rest stay the same. Here is a site that has a nice picture: http://www.firewall.com/~mcd/crossover.html You can also buy custom-made crossover cables on the web for about $5 US (for 10 feet). That's probably the easiest way to go but it's not instantaneous. Here are a few sites that I found through a quick search, but I don't know anything about them. Just go to the site and search for "crossover" on their products page. http://www.villagegeek.net http://www.techstore.com http://www.cdw.com Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > Hi, I have two boxes (one woody, one potato) with ethernet cards, > connected by a RJ45 cable. I'd like to be able to ssh/sftp betwixt them. > > [I admit I don't grok networking much yet (that's partly why I'm doing > this, to learn). I've mainly been reading the Net-HOWTO and the man pages > for ifconfig, if(up|down), route, and references therein; let me know if > there's another FM I should RT.] > > I've given the two boxes, 'leper-messiah' [1] and 'yomama', which I've > given addresses 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.0.1 resp; and I've edited > /etc/hosts on each box appropriately. The file > 'leper-messiah:/etc/network/interfaces' contains the stanza > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.0 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > The file 'yomama:/etc/network/interfaces' contains this stanza > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > I've gotten the eth0 interface working fine (I think) on both. For > example, on yomama, 'ifconfig eth0' yields > yomama:~# ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:47:A9:A1 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 > I've enabled the appropriate services in /etc/services on both machines, > I'm pretty certain, so I don't believe that's the problem. > > I tried various manipulations of the routing table, but they didn't seem > to help. I'm not sure what other info is useful, so please ask. > > Thanks in advance. > Aaron > > [1] 'Leper Messiah' is an old Metallica song, from before they sucked. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
