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do you need crossover cable in this?

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Mrfrog840

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Running cable internet into one NA and then running another regular wire to the other computer through the other NA straight to the other computer.
 
The formal term is NIC - Network Interface Card.

Yes, you need to use Crossover CAT5 cable.
 
i think you could use a straight cable if u had a network switch, right?

so NIC1 --> switch ---> NIC2 using 2 straight cables, but i could be wrong
 
it has been a long time since i have played with a network using a crossover cable. I do have a qurestion that was posed to me that I could not recall the answer to.

In using the crossover cable, what do you put in as the default gateway on each machine?
Assuming 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 are the 2 computers and workgroup as the workgroup name.....

My thoughts are, there is no router so my assumption is that there is no gateway. The other possibility I thought about was that each computer is its own gateway. If that were the case the gateway should be the same as the ip on the same local machine.

Any thoughts?
 
Originally posted by: whalen
You dont need a gateway since they are both on the same subnet.
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If one of them was acting as a NAT gateway then you would need a gateway and DNS entries 🙂
 
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