twisted Pair

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana]

Patrick Newberry writes:
 
> I have a twisted pair connector made for me a long time ago and both
> machines have ethernet cards. 
 
> Is there any info on what I have to do next to connect the two (after
> plugging in the cables and turning the machines on :-)
 
> I'd have to set some sort of IP address?

I do something similar with two machines here. To set the IP address
to 192.168.1.90 of my Ubuntu box I have the following in my
/etc/network/interfaces file:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# Assign a static IP address to this computer (mainly used to transfer
# stuff from another computer through a crossover cable).
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.90
gateway 192.168.1.90
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH,

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--Jhair