On 08/17/2016 07:45 AM, 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 My internet searches turn up too much outdated information and/or fine 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.
It would help if you provided more information about your network and computers: 1. Laptop make, model, and version, CPU make and model, RAM size, HDD/SSD size, and Ethernet speed of Windows laptop. 2. Experimental laptop and key parameters (as above). 3. Internet modem or gateway. 4. Router and/or routing software. 5. Any other devices we should know about. 6. Distances between devices. David
