Backup console as wing?

Hi,
Been reading this forum for a while but this is my first post, just took delivery of 2 full boars and am very happy about this! They've both gone straight out on a month long run of shows, one as a backup desk. Some of the shows are going to be busked, but since we haven't yet got any wings available, we were wondering could we network the desks in such a way as to have separate playbacks on each, while using only the main desk's dmx outputs?

Been searching quite a bit and haven't found anything, so guessing it's not possible, just looking for a definitive answer really, or if there are any known workarounds.

Cheers, very useful forum by the way.
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    Cheers for the help, fairly new to this, no console networking experience bar connecting wysiwyg to Hog 2PC and Hog 3PC.

    So yeah I guess what I was really asking was could you run separate pages on networked consoles, I'll take that as a yes then! Thank you.

    One more thing, exactly what hardware do I need to achieve this? Again I haven't been able to find anything definitive about connecting 2 consoles and nothing else. Do I need a hub/router, or will a crossover cable do the trick?

    Cheers again, sorry I know this will probably have been covered elsewhere, just eluded me!
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    Cheers for the help, fairly new to this, no console networking experience bar connecting wysiwyg to Hog 2PC and Hog 3PC.

    So yeah I guess what I was really asking was could you run separate pages on networked consoles, I'll take that as a yes then! Thank you.

    One more thing, exactly what hardware do I need to achieve this? Again I haven't been able to find anything definitive about connecting 2 consoles and nothing else. Do I need a hub/router, or will a crossover cable do the trick?

    Cheers again, sorry I know this will probably have been covered elsewhere, just eluded me!
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