cndcadams,
The cable is an ethernet cross: 1-3, 2-6, 3-1, 4-4, 5-5,
6-1, 7-7, 8-8. (I do have link lights on both ends so I wasn't concerned about the cable)
The other system is just a Windows PC NIC I am using to test connectivity. Once I have the interfaces configured properly, bge0 and...