On 8/17/2016 10:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet.
The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie
installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have
multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet
connectivity. It has a small partition set aside for
preseed.cfg and miscellaneous scripts.
The second machine is running WinXP Pro SP3 and serves as
source of preseed and script files.
My internet searches turn up too much outdated information
and/or fine detail. Most link assume a server with multiple
clients. Better description would be a peer to peer setup. It
may be convenient to have the Windows machine act as a terminal
for the Debian machine.
If you're connecting the two machines with a single cable, then
either the cable needs to be a "cross-over" ethernet cable, or
one or other other the devices needs to support "Auto-MDI/MDIX".
Support for that was patchy in 10M/100M devices but it mich more
common in Gigabit Ethernet devices.
I'm using Lenovos - a T43 and a R61, each with Gigabit interface.
Once you've got the physical layer sorted (that is, green blinky
lights on both machines), then the rest of the configuration
should be much the same as any network:
* Either give the hosts unique, static IPs OR
Run a DHCP server on one of the machines
* Either refer to the hosts by IP address OR
Run a DNS server on one of the machines OR
Write the hostnames in /etc/hosts
(%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows)
Ahh the question is HOW <chuckle>
Bought Cat6 straight thru cable. Neither machine has a light to
blink, but both reacted indicating cable present - but no
communication established YET.
Suggested search terms or links.
A significant motivation is self education. I date from era when
a UART occupied several square inches of PCB ;/
If retirement is not for education, what use is it?
Thank you.
