On 5/28/2014 1:29 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2014, John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/27/2014 5:38 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Until recently, I had a 32-bit machine with one monitor running fedora. The later editions of fedora didn't like it, so I switched to CentOS. Now I have two 64-bit machines and two monitors and a CenturyLink router. Also a KVM switch that I have not taken out of the package. My main machine has two video connections and two ethernet connections, eth0 and eth1 .
I've never had more than one machine or more than one monitor before.
I'd like to be able to use both monitors at once on my main machine. I'd like to be able to switch one monitor between machines without too much trouble. I'd rather not where the pins out. KVM will do this, right? KVM is transparent to the computer, right? My secondary machine sometimes runs Windows, so I'd like it not to have its own global IP address. My first thought would be to connect it directly to one of the ethernet ports on my main machine.
How do I go about this? The answer I am expecting is one or more links to tutorials or the like.
now, about that networking thing. thats a whole different issue. plugging the 2nd computer into the 2nd port on the first computer will require the first computer to implement some form of network sharing and to configure a 2nd subnet address range on that 2nd port, something like 192.168.x.y.
I thought the networking thing might be more interesting. I was petty sure that each should have a local IP address for the other and if the 2nd machine wants to contact the outside world, numero uno will need to know how to mediate the connection.
It can get fairly "interesting" depending on what you are trying to do. You may need a special crossover cable to connect the two computers directly. The newer network cards may be able to handle doing this with a standard cable, but I haven't tried it.
Why do you want to connect the two computers like this? It is usually more trouble than it's worth unless you want to use the first computer as a firewall or something. Just connect both of them to your router and everything should work fine.