Best bet is connect both to a router or switch (and use fixed IP addressing on both for simplicity). Your Oracle stuff is going to be happy with a fixed IP address on both machines; if they're yours, you could use 192.168.1.10 for one of them and 192.168.1.20 for the other, give both boxes a different name and make entries in
/etc/hosts for both, something like this:
Code:
# For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.10 boxa
192.168.1.20 boxb
Second best bet is to use a "null modem" cable between the two Ethernet ports (doable but harder).
If they're both on a LAN, they ought to be able to talk to each other without a lot of effort (which is, in effect, the router/switch solution).
Hope this helps some.
