Jorpho wrote:Nic-93 wrote:and its connected between the cable only.
Unless it's a crossover Ethernet cable (or unless perhaps you have a gigabit ethernet card in your Win98 machine), you can't do jack squat, if I'm not mistaken.
It actually would just require at least one of the NICs to support Auto-MDIX if the cable is a normal patch cable. A newer machine/NIC should have this capability.
As far as connecting the two machines, it could be useful to send data back and forth if that's needed (like what foey explained), or you could use it to remotely control one machine via something like VNC or an input sharing application like Synergy, assuming each system has its own monitor and they're setup reasonably close (it can be awkward if the machines aren't nearby).