eth1 missing: is cross-connect cable present ?

Very recently we moved to a dual server setup, two P4's running RHE Linux 3.0. The two servers are supposed to be connected with a cross-connect cable, however I am beginning to wonder whether this cable was actually installed.

I want to assign internal Ips to the cross-connect cable and use it so that traffic too and from the second server (database server) does not count towards our bandwidth allowance by going out over the net.

The problem is, the direct cable connection isn't appearing in the interface table when we run 'ifconfig'. The only interface in there other than 'lo' on both servers is 'eth0' which I believe is the main connection out to the internet. Should there not be an 'eth1' which represents the direct cable connection ? Is there a way to determine for certain that this cable is actually physically present between the two servers ?

 

 

 

 

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