Apesbrain wrote: > Interesting, you might be able to do it with a crossover cable: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable > Crossover cables are history. Every modern network interface is capable of detecting a direct connection and internally switch to crossover mode. This also works if one of the peers does not support this feature (although I think the network interface in the Touch can do it too).
The main problem when doing this is that your network will be undefined and various network supplied features (e.g. DNS name resolving) will not be present. A key missing component is DHCP which provides your machine(s) with an IP address and while there is a fall-back method that will auto-assign an address in the range 169.254.x.x I'm not sure that the Touch actually supports this method. You should be able to verify by viewing the player information on the Touch. A software solution is to make the laptop a DHCP+DNS server. The hardware alternative is to grab an old router and use that to connect the two. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gordonb3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116817 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
