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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
I believe following these steps will allow you to set up a direct cable connection using normally a null modem cable but iirc you can use other methods ie firewire
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Huh ? No mate I have always fancied firewire as a real network transport (400mbps) and it works great between linux machines (I've never tried bonding or bridging ports for more bandwidth but I thing 1394b/a is restricted to 400 and 800 mbps anyway.
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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja
If you dont mind me asking - what the heck are you doing?
I assume its something that requires small network overheads.
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Should draw a network diagram really.
I use 2 machines simultaneously Linux and Windows
Linux
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Core Development
Primary Desktop
Primary profiles for firefox/thunderbird
Windows
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PIM / Media
Desktop is mounted on the Linux machine
Both are connected to the LAN and are controlled via a single keyboard mouse via x2vnc / vnc such that the effect is as I move my mouse onto the second monitor I am using the windows machines dragging it back I'm on linux. Both machines see the same desktop.
What I want is a dedicated network channel for just the vnc bit / shared desktop such that I get ABSOLUTE fluidity when using x2vnc as sometimes the mouse cursor slows down during heavy network load. I guess I could do QoS but prefer not to. A dedicated link would be much nicer.
I guess it doesn't have to be gigabit either so I'll just pop some old 10/100s in there but they might perform rubbish in crossover mode (thats a question can I get 100mbs under cross over ? : edit yeh I think cat5e will do the trick)