If both the boxes are quite new and thus have Gigabit NICs you even don't need a cross-over cable. You even don't need the router.
For some info about cross-over cables see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
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You don't need to be a genius to debug a pf.conf firewall ruleset, you just need the guts to run tcpdump
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