Connection 2 computers with a Crossover

All network settings would be the same as if you were setting up a peer-to-peer with a hub. A hub essentially does the "crossing over" internally. Without the hub, it must be crossed over "manually" with a crossover cable. Nothing is different except the cable.

There is nothing different you have to do with the computers, just the cable. Run a crossover cable between the two network cards and you can configure the computers the same as if you had a hub.

The hard part is making sure that you have a crossover cable. If you are building your own or you want to check to make sure you have the right kind of cable, check out this webpage:
http://www.siriuscomputers.com/rj45.htm

The basic answer is no there is nothing special when connecting 2 computers using a crossover cable. The crossover cable achieves for you what the internal workings of a hub would do.

So basically you have computer 1 with a nic and you have computer 2 with a nic and you plug the crossover cable ends into the nic's and you now have "networked" the two computers and make the standard adjustments to transport protocols and machine identification. Should actually work pretty well.

Identical setup except the crossover goes directly from one PC to the other. The crossover cable just fools the two computers into thinking there is a hub between them.

Kev.

Just buy or make a crossover cable (the orange and green pairs are just flipped on one end), plug it into both NIC's, and configure just like you would normally. Hope this helps.

Your network settings would be the same as if you were setting up with a hub. The Hub does the "cross over" internally. Without a Hub, the crossed over must be done manually or buy IEC crossover cable adapter. You can get more information on this cross over adapter in www.iec.net

Good Luck

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