Timeline for Is there a way to tell the difference between a direct connection and network connection
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| Nov 5, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | richmb | I think I'm going to enable dhcp fallback/auto-ip(avahi) on the linux machine and see how that works | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 14:35 | comment | added | allquixotic | Having a DHCP server running on your machine to serve a local NAT that's routed to your WAN is not mutually exclusive with having your WAN interface obtain an IP from a downstream DHCP server. You can just use NetworkManager to turn on connection sharing (similar to Windows' ICS) and it'll do the appropriate routing rules, DNS, DHCP, etc. | |
| Oct 19, 2012 at 14:24 | history | edited | richmb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2012 at 14:21 | comment | added | richmb | as in someone uses an ethernet cable with one end connected to my linux machine and the other to a PC. I'm assuming that Auto-MDIX will take care of the crossover-ness. | |
| Oct 18, 2012 at 21:48 | comment | added | John | What do you mean by a "direct connection" to another PC? | |
| Oct 17, 2012 at 21:17 | history | asked | richmb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |