a simple home desktop to laptop network

hi
i need to conect my desktop with my laptop. My computers are conected
directly via (crossed) ethernet cable. On both machines the ethernet
interface is eth0. I don't want to share an internet connection. Both
computers connect to the internet via dial up (through ppp0). I want to
make a connection in order to use some usual application like ssh and ftp.
I would also need some help on making the "/home/userid" available as
mounting point with lvm.
I am running a firewall on both pcs (on ppp0) and i don't want to run it on
eth0 as well. Can this create any conectivity problems?
I tried to setup the network by explicitely defining a static ip on each
machine (with subnet mask 255.255.255.255) but when i was trying to test
the network with an ftp command it either tried to resolve the host in the
internet or it was ftping the localhost.
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE help

I am running SuSE linux 8.2 pro and i am using yast2 if it's any helpful.
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:00:47 -0800, ALIEN <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> hi
> i need to conect my desktop with my laptop. My computers are conected
> directly via (crossed) ethernet cable. On both machines the ethernet
> interface is eth0. I don't want to share an internet connection. Both
> computers connect to the internet via dial up (through ppp0). I want to
> make a connection in order to use some usual application like ssh and ftp.
> I would also need some help on making the "/home/userid" available as
> mounting point with lvm.
> I am running a firewall on both pcs (on ppp0) and i don't want to run it on
> eth0 as well. Can this create any conectivity problems?
> I tried to setup the network by explicitely defining a static ip on each
> machine (with subnet mask 255.255.255.255) but when i was trying to test
> the network with an ftp command it either tried to resolve the host in the
> internet or it was ftping the localhost.
> PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASE help
>
> I am running SuSE linux 8.2 pro and i am using yast2 if it's any helpful.

You could try using a netmask 255.255.255.0 (with 255.255.255.255 you have
to specifically add a -host route for the IP of the other PC). Do you
have names for these IPs in /etc/hosts of each box? Although, daemons
that use tcpwrappers may still attempt to use DNS to resolve names for
connecting IPs, so you should only have active (connected) nameservers in
/etc/resolv.conf to minimize DNS timeout delays.

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