I feel like I have a rudimentary question but after reading many howtos, I
don't feel like I have the answer yet. I am trying to setup a simple
network -- two computers: my Linux box and a Win95 laptop machine. My
Linux box is running RedHat 6.1 (basic workstation install) and has a 3Com
ISA network card which works fine and is recognized by Linux. I setup the
network interface on Linux by using
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
When I run route -n I see that the 192.168.1.0 route has been added to the
table for the eth0 device. In Windows, I set the laptop to be 192.168.1.2.
However, when I ping from my Win95 machine I get the message 'request timed
out.' I can't telnet or do anything else.
I checked the output of ipchains -L and it has ACCEPT for everything. Could
someone please tell me if I'm making some sort of simple mistake?
Thanks in advance,
-roger
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