Hello,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mohan R wrote:
> It seems, Vista don't want to connect with Ubuntu. Here is what happend,

> 1. Bought a crossover-cable and connected two laptops.
> 2. Both systems started dhcp request, Ubuntu settled with creating one
> more ethernet interface 'eth0:avahi'.
> 3. Vista created a connection called 'unidentified network'.

You should have checked to see what addresses were assigned to the
individual machines at this point. There is a link local IPv4 network
which is setup automatically by avahi; it is possible that vista does
something similar.

> 6. At last I tried to ping each other, Vista is able to ping
> 192.168.1.2. But Ubuntu was not able to ping, even 'destination host
> unreachable' message not appeared.

It is possible that vista disables ICMP packets or something. You
should have tried to use a TCP/IP service like ssh. Perhaps the vista
machine had some firewall rules setup.

> (I'm not able to recreate the situation, my friend is
> in bangalore now, Sorry for not pasting the output).

Problems and solutions that cannot be re-created can generally be
treated as non-existent! :-)

Kapil.
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