swithch and hub question

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Lloyd Budd wrote:
> 
> On 7-Jun-04, at 11:56, hui xu wrote:
> 
>> All,
>>
>> I am building a home network using two computers. One
>> computer having  two network cards are used as server,
>> the other has only one network card are used as client
>> computer. My question is :
>>
>> 1.should I use a switch or hub between them? I tried
>> directly connect these two computers without switch or
>> hub. It seem that this structure doesn't work. both
>> light on these network card are not on.
> 
> Direct connection -> cross-over cable

A cross-over cable is a definite must have if you want to connect two 
computers directly, but I wonder if somebody could correct my impression 
that newer computers had autosensing MDI/MDIX ports.



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