You need one of three things listed in increasing order of cost:
1) a crossover network cable
2) a network hub
3) a network switch
A hub or switch allows the use of straight thru cables.
Tom
"Antoniou, Stylianos" wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I have configured two PCs (Mandrake7.0 & RedHat6.1) in my college network.
> When the network cards are connected to the network sockets everything is
> fine, I have access to the www from both and when I ping from one to the
> other I can get a connection.
> # ping 155.198.91.168
> PING 155.198.91.168 (155.198.91.168) from 155.198.91.82 : 56(84) bytes of
> data.
> 64 bytes from 155.198.91.168 icmp_seq=0 tt164 time=4.2ms
> 64 bytes from 155.198.91.168 icmp_seq=0 tt164 time=4.2ms
> ...
> However, when I directly connect the two network cards with one cable, the
> connection is not established, i.e.
> # ping 155.198.91.168
> PING 155.198.91.168 (155.198.91.168) 56 bytes of data.
>
> and nothing else. What am I missing?
> Thanks, in advance
> Stelios
