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Two computers on the same network, but also directly connected
I have two systems, both of which are on my home's network (192.168.1.xxx), one is a file server, one is a test machine. To each computer, I've added a CX4 10Gb network adapter and I've connected them directly into eachother with the proper cabling. My hope is that since both machines are on my home network, I can still ssh into them normally, but I'd like to set up the CX4 cards to talk directly to eachother so I can do large file transfers quickly between those two machines.
I was thinking of statically assigning one CX4 nic as 172.16.0.2 and the other as 172.16.0.3. Would that be enough to successfully communicate from one to the other? Do I need to make any other considerations?
I should mention that I currently have the nics set up this way, they can ping eachother on the 192.168.1.x network, but for the 172.16.0.x nics, if I ping 172.16.0.2 from 172.16.0.3 or 172.16.0.3 from 172.16.0.2 I get "Destination Host Unreachable"
172.16.0.2 can ping itself, and so can 172.16.0.3
Resolved, I had the cable plugged into the wrong set of ports. ...wish I could delete this question.
Last edited by VolumetricSteve; 04-25-2017 at 10:02 PM.
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