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machine is running WinXP Pro SP3 and serves as source of preseed and script files.My internet searches turn up too much outdated information and/or fine detail.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.
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 ORWrite the hostnames in /etc/hosts (%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows)
Suggested search terms or links. Thank you.
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