Crossover cable connection between 2 computers.

[Mike Shaw]

Dooooh!  Whoops my bad!  I mis-read.  I was thinking he was using a
null modem cable.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/13 Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com>:
>> Your looking at this little backward.  Once you have the network setup
>> between the machines any application you would normally use to
>> transfer files between two machines will work, i.e. ftp, scp, rsync,
>> nfs mount and copy, samba mount and copy, etc.  It sounds like you
>> don't have the network setup.  In order to get a serial link network
>> setup you might look at the Linux Documentation Project(www.tlp.org)
>> for details, especially the Serial How-to and the Network
>> Administrators' Guide.  You are going to setup either a SLIP or PPP
>> connection to get this to work via serial cable.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> I don't see that anywhere that he using an serial cable. He says that
> he has a "crossover cable" and for me thats a "crossover Ethernet
> cable" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable. That
> would make things easier, if he just get the network up, transfer
> files with sftp/fish is easy and he don't need to use any CLI tools
> for that.
>
> / Jonas
>
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