Re[2]: Connecting two ThinkPads?

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From: Adam Quantrill (aquantrill_at_scigen.co.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 04:43:59 EST

Alternatively it might be coax. In which case you need to arrange the wiring so that

a) there is 2 meters of more cable between the nodes.
b) each node consists of a 50ohm T piece
c) into which you plug one end of the cable, a thinkpad, and a 50ohm terminator.

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Subject: Re: Connecting two ThinkPads?
Author: MIME:Bruce Markowitz <scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net> at INTERNET
Date: 3/22/00 6:13 AM

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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