Right, that plan is somewhat foiled by most laptops not having ethernet ports anymore.
You don't need crossover cables anymore. You can just connect a regular patch cable directly between 2 devices. Modern devices can swap RX/TX as needed.
As for auto-configuration, that's up to the OS, but yeah you probably have to set up static IPs.
You don't need crossover cables anymore. You can just connect a regular patch cable directly between 2 devices. Modern devices can swap RX/TX as needed.
As for auto-configuration, that's up to the OS, but yeah you probably have to set up static IPs.