Re: ethernet crossover cable

> Second question: is there some standard set of ethernet address one
> should use when connecting two computers together? I'm guessing it's
> the same that these routers use that people have at home.
>
To your original question, if you only need the hookup quickly, you can
bodge one McGuyver style. Take a regular cable, cut it in half and join the
orange wire on one side with the green wire on the other (similarly for the
orange-striped w/ green-striped).

To your second question, you can use pretty nearly any two addresses so long
as the other settings match, but here's a set that's pretty common (and a
good idea as it's part of one of the three "private IP blocks")

Computer A:
IP: 192.168.0.1
Netmask 255.255.255.0
Gateway: <blank>

Computer B:
IP: 192.168.0.2
Netmask 255.255.255.0
Gateway: <blank>

-Sara

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Received on Tue Dec 16 16:18:08 2003