Re: A minimalist network
On 8/17/16 11:09 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet.
The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie
installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have multiple
installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet connectivity.
It has a small partition set aside for preseed.cfg and miscellaneous
scripts.
The second machine is running WinXP Pro SP3 and serves as source of
preseed and script files.
My internet searches turn up too much outdated information and/or
fine detail. Most link assume a server with multiple clients. Better
description would be a peer to peer setup. It may be convenient to
have the Windows machine act as a terminal for the Debian machine.
If you're connecting the two machines with a single cable, then either
the cable needs to be a "cross-over" ethernet cable, or one or other
other the devices needs to support "Auto-MDI/MDIX". Support for that
was patchy in 10M/100M devices but it mich more common in Gigabit
Ethernet devices.
Or you could just plug both machines into a cheap ethernet hub.
Once you've got the physical layer sorted (that is, green blinky
lights on both machines), then the rest of the configuration should be
much the same as any network:
* Either give the hosts unique, static IPs OR
Run a DHCP server on one of the machines
* Either refer to the hosts by IP address OR
Run a DNS server on one of the machines OR
Write the hostnames in /etc/hosts
(%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows)
If you're continually rebuilding the Debian machine, you probably don't
want to fool with peer-to-peer setups. Probably better just to enable
the ftp server already built into Win XP.
Another thing to do is install PuTTY on the WinXP box as a telnet/ssh
client.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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