On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on >both. > >I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why >would this be? > Hardware problem somehwere...thats for sure...but I have no idea where you should look 1st. on the other issue... > >When I telnet my desktop from my laptop, a prompt comes up, but very >slowly. It won't let me type in my login, and then it times out. > Bet you have a DNS identified in your /etc/resolv.conf and its not reachable! Been there, done that to myself too!
:) Paul
