From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 22:46:53 EST
You need either a hub, or a crossover cable. You can't just hook two
10BaseT cables together - that won't work.
STeve Andre' wrote:
>
> At the risk of being slightly off topic:
>
> I have two ThinkPads. I want the two of them to be able to talk with
> each other via ethernet. In all the networking stuff I've done, I have
> never just connected two Windows machines together in this way.
>
> So far, I've not been able to get them to talk with each other. I can't
> ping either machine, sigh.
>
> If anyone can tell me how to do this, or point me to a URL on this, I'd
> appreciate it very much.
>
> Thanks, --STeve Andre'
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