I have a little program that you can run on two machines., and it sends
and listens without reference to anything else, without ip numbers or anything.
I can e-mail you this if you require, and it will eliminate the hardware for
you. I ran into this problem, and found it was simply terminators.
Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I tried that and each machine can ping itseld and gets responses, but can't
> > ping the other machine. In other words, win95 can ping itself but not linux and
> > linux can ping itself but not win95.
> >
> > Randy Kramer wrote:
> >
> > > Also, have each machine try pinging itself, in other words:
> > >
> > > ping 127.0.0.1
> > > ping localhost
> > >
> > > If those don't work, there is something wrong with the networking
> > > software on each machine. (I can't help you with the next step, but
> > > someone can -- post your results.)
> > >
> > > Randy Kramer
> > >
> > > Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 09:24 AM 4/3/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > >i am tryint o reconnect my home LAN but I can't getmy machines to ping
> > > > >each
> > > > >other. Everything is fine. IP configuration is right, HUB is working,
> > > > >cables
> > > > >are new and connected. Don;t know what the problem may be?
> > > >
> > > > what does 'route -n' show? i've had problems in the past with changing IP
> > > > addresses via linuxconf and having the ifconfig info change, but not the
> > > > routing table.
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