On 8/17/2016 10:34 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
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My internet searches turn up too much outdated information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.
I did purchase an "8-Port Gigabit Switch". I don't intend open
the shrink wrap unless convinced there is no other way. As I've
said elsewhere a major motivation is educational.
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.
Do I really want an "ftp server"? I can see the WinXP machine as
a "server". Do I have problems with definitions?
Another thing to do is install PuTTY on the WinXP box as a
telnet/ssh client.
I've seen terms PuTTY and telnet before - will have to use them
as search terms.
Why would I be interested in ssh as both machines are sitting on
my desk and _neither_ will be connected to the internet when
ethernet connection is live?
