Unison over ethernet cable

[dmyersturnbull]

Hi,

I need to be able to use Unison (version 2.40.63) between two computers, both running Fedora 15, over an ethernet cable without a network connection. Any idea of how to do this?

Thanks!

[flyingfsck]

Connect two machines through a switch, or with a cross-over cable (10/100 ethernet), or a straight cable (1Gbps).

Give each machine an IP address, netmask and default gateway:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add eth0 default gw 192.168.1.2

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add eth0 default gw 192.168.1.1

Now run FTP, SSH, NFS or whatever server on one and run a client on the other to transfer data.