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Re: no switch?



On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 04:00:02PM +0100, erasmo perez wrote:

> is it possible to link 2 machines in order to make a 2 machines
> beowulf cluster but without a switch ?

A crossover UTP cable should do the job just fine.

> is is recomendable ? what about the latency times and collisions ?

There shouldn't be any problem, particularly if both cards can do
full duplex.

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