cat5e laptop-to-laptop?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:57 -0400, Trevor Smith wrote:
> Can I take two computers (laptops both) and plug them together directly 
> from one nic to another with a "standard" ethernet cable? Or do I need 
> a crossover cable or something to do that? And if I have the correct 
> cable, will the two machines do some sort of peer-to-peer networking 
> more or less automagically or will it be difficult to set up? One runs 
> FC2, the other Mac OS X 10.3.7.
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computer to computer - crossover

Craig