It's the exact same enviroment same computers and cables
and cards.
The cards are ISA Ethernet 3 cards from 3Com
--- Connie Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is he using a crossover cable instead of a hub? I don't
> have the original
> posts as I get my e's from about 5 different locations
> thru the day.
>
> If this is so, is he sure the cable is good? Is this the
> actual same cable
> that he used while the pc's were running windows? ....or
> in other words was
> he running them as windows in the same environment?
>
> He has triple checked that he has unique id's on each pc?
> If so, I would
> ditch those addresses and try 2 others.
>
> Are these PCI nics or ISA nics. I have had mucho trouble
> with PCI nics on
> some motherboards using IP, and go to ISA and have no
> problem.
>
> Connie
>
> >eric - i'll take your word for it that both pc's talk to
> each other in
> windows
> >(vi IP and NOT NETBUI) - so it's not a wiring problem -
> buy a mini hub huh?
> >that way u can see the link status lights :)
> >
> >ps: - ray - how do i compile kpilot (palmpilot s/w runs
> for kde) so i can
> >get it to run under xfce?? - thing won't compile - it's
> complaining about
> >QT and stuff.
> >
> >
> >the rude
>
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> >
> >
> >Ray Olszewski wrote:
> >
> >> Eric --
> >>
> >> I'm basically stumped. Everything you posted looks
> right to me. So we're
> >> down to longshots.
> >>
> >> 1. Are the IP addresses the Linux hosts use the exact
> same ones they use
> >> when booted in Windows? If not, make them match and
> see if that helps.
> >>
> >> 2. When both are in Linux mode, you've said the A
> cannot ping B. Can B
> ping
> >> A? If it can, A probably has some sort of problem with
> its broadcast
> >> address, such that ARP requests aren't being processed
> properly.
> >>
> >> 3. After you try to ping to B from A, what does A's
> ARP table look like
> >> (it's in /proc/net/arp on my hosts, probably on yours
> too)? How about
> B's? A
> >> to B, same questions.
> >>
> >> 4. Does A have ANY PnP hardware in it? Like a
> Winmodem, perhaps?
> Something
> >> that might be interfering with reception on IRQ 10?
> (I've seen this
> happen
> >> to NICs that were set for IRQ 3
> >>
> >> -- they show okay in /proc/interrupts,
> >> but a
> >>
> >> Winmodem on IRQ 3 still picks off only incoming
> packets. For
> >> it to happen
> >>
> >> on IRQ 10 would be unusual, but not impossible.)
> >>
> >> 5. Even though the nay-saying responses were right,
> I'd try using
> different
> >> IP addresses, ones that don't include 0s. The
> standards say that 0s are
> okay
> >> eveywhere except at the end (10.0.0.0 would not be
> valid, for example,
> but
> >> only because the rightmost 0 makes it a network
> address), but software
> has
> >> been known not to implement the standards correctly.
> I'd be surprised if
> >> Linux netowrking got this wrong -- if it had, everyone
> would know about
> it,
> >> especially in a popular release like RH 5.2 (and I
> know from my own
> >> experience that this is NOT a problem with SLackware).
> But, as I said,
> we're
> >> down to long shots.
> >>
> >> At 11:57 AM 7/21/99 -0400, Eric P. wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >I did the ifconfig and route -n. and her are the
> results
> >> >for each computer.
> >>
> >> [rest deleted]
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the
> odds!"---
> >> Ray Olszewski
> -- Han Solo
> >> Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
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