Quote Originally Posted by fpd
Connect a cable between the two network ports, or connect both computers to a router.
There is a bit more to it han this. If you use a router (or even a switch or hub) you use regular cables. With a router the computers will get their setup information by DHCP. If you just connect the two computers directly together using modern twisted pair cards, you'll need a special cross over cable (unless you have rare NICs that automatically adjust for this). A normal ethernet cable will not work. With the cross over cable approach, or with the switvch or hub you'll have to set up the network informattion in the computers manually.

But yes, the networking stuff is all there, the support for slow hacks isn't. So it would be far better to get two nics, an inexpensive router and two inexpensive standard cables. And if you have or expect to get high speed Internet service this is certainly the only way to go.