Well, did the cross-over cable test OK? Have you tried switching the configs so that you are using a different network card with the Win98 machine? Have you tried straight-through cables and a hub/switch? If you are sure the software setup is good it's time to consider the physical setup. However, I'm a BSD man, and don't know if there are possible driver bugs or whatever in your setup.
TimH On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:46:16 -0700 (PDT) "Bryan Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to network with my wife's PC for > awhile now and I can't get past this one hurdle. I'm > wondering if there is any insights from the Eugene > Linux sages about my dilemma. > > Here's the deal. I've got a linux box running > Mandrake 8.1. It has two Ethernet cards, eth0 (to the > internet via U of O) and eth1 (to my wife, Lynn). My > wife has an old Win98 (1st ed.) box with a single > ethernet card We have a crossover cable connecting > us. > > Mine (linux) is 172.16.0.1 (eth1) > Hers (Win98) is 172.16.0.2 > > My problem is this: I can ping from Linux to win98 > but not from win98 to linux. Has anyone seen this > before? > > On the Windows box has the same hosts file as the > linux box, and has the IP address specified. DNS and > WINS has been disabled, the gateway is set as my linux > box's IP address, from what I can gather, my > "lmhosts" file is also set up correctly. > > I've checked & re-checked, tweaked & re-tweaked my > hosts, hosts.allow, hosts.deny, & other related files > on the linux box. I know all the hardware is working > just fine. I searched Google high and low and have > read as many 'man' pages as I could see that was > related to the topic (although being a novice, certain > ones fly over my head at the second sentence). I > showed my setup to another member of the EUGLUG list > and he confirmed that most of my setup looked o.k. > > I can email you more info if you need it. I've been > thinking about bringing my boxes to one of the > meetings, but I want to make sure that I've tried > everything I can at home before I lug our whole setup > downtown. > > Any thoughts, anyone? > > Bryan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com > -- "...but an oppressive and intrusive government, however you want to label it, does not ride into town wearing the uniforms and waving the flags of recognizable evil. It creeps in slowly, wrapped in the flag of your own country, and speaking the language of patriotism and duty, and at each step along the way, its actions seem plausible and defensible--until one morning you wake up and realize the gulf between the way things were and the way things are has grown so wide that there is no going back." -Tom Tomorrow
