>I need a little advice if you can spare it, and it's probably obvious to the
>experts, so here goes. I'm trying to connect my two boxes so I can transfer
>files via NFS directly with no hub between them, just an ethernet cable
>connecting their two network cards. They currently can't ping eachother.
>Here's what I've done:
>
>1) I set up my old box as funkytux.ejahn.net (alias funky) with static IP
>10.0.0.1 and ifconfig eth0 reports it as set correctly
>2) Is set up my new box as 64funky.ejahn.net (alias 64funky) with static IP
>10.0.0.2
>my subnet mask is 255.255.255.0
>3) I didn't set the gateway, should I?
>When I ping one to the other, it the console just waits and doesn't return
>anything until I hit ctrl+c, and then it reports all the packets sent were
>dropped. It does not say "network unreachable" as it first did before I set
>up the hosts. Am I missing something? Thanks!
>
>
You need a crossover cable. A normal patch cable won't work for a
direct connection.
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