Spm Fltr forced the electrons to say:
> i am having problems getting my NIC cards to talk to
> each other.
>
> Q1. what did i do wrong/miss ?
I think you missed to add the route to the other machine.
What does route -n on either machine show you? I suspect you miss the line
that goes something like:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
Add it via
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0
at both ends.
> Q2. is there any way of checking whether the
> NIC+cable+NIC is hardware-ok ? (ie the prob is with
If a machine can ping itself via the ethernet i/f, or if traceroute via that
i/f works, then there shouldn't be a card problem. If the i/f is up, and if
the routes are setup correctly, then they should be able to ping each other.
Otherwise you can conclude that there might be a cable problem.
BTW, how are you connecting these two machines? Via a hub? Or is it BNC? Have
you forgotten the 50 ohm terminators?
Binand
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