On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Michael Hennebry > <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > Physically, you can just plug them together. If they are gigabit > interfaces they will automatically handle the crossover part. And you > +1 Most GigE interfaces (as part of 802.3ab) [0] will support MDI-X auto-crossover (pre-standard GigE interfaces might not auto-cross as expected) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.3ab#1000BASE-T > can use iptables on the internet-connected box to NAT the outbound > connections. However, the common and simple approach is to use a > home router that will typically provide 4 ethernet connections on the > LAN side plus wifi for your phone/tablet/laptop. > Or you could bridge the two interfaces (eth0 and eth1 for example) together. Keep in mind you won't be able to bridge a wired and wireless interface together (at least with much usability/success), so you'd have to NAT/PAT Masquerade if a wireless interface is in the mix. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //