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Rudy Gireyev wrote:
> 
> If there are only two machines involved what's wrong with a regular
> parallel (laplink) cable? :-)

Performance, of course. A laplink cable will be roughly 10 times slower
than Ethernet, if not more.

> Or am I lost here?
> 
> Rudy
> 

Nadav