Here are several things to check, ordered by my guess about which are more
likely to turn up the problem. Good luck.
1. How are the two computers physically connected? If the NICs are 10BaseT,
you are connecting them throug a hub, yes? If not, you can't use an ordinary
cable to connect them -- you need a special, "crossover" cable (sort of the
Ethernet equivalent of the modem eliminator cables familiar to those of us
who did a lot of RS232 connections) -- it crosses the wires of the transmit
and receive pins to allow two NICs to connect without a hub.
2. What routing do you have set up in the Win95 host? Does it have a route
to the 192.168.1.0 network? (Not being a Windows specialist, I'm not exactly
sure how to set that up; I expect it is in the same networking dialog in
which you set the address.)
3. Can you ping the Win95 host from the Linux host? If not, what error does
the Linux host report?
4. Can you ping the Linux hostf rom itself? ("ping localhost"). If not, what
error does it return.
At 12:59 AM 12/5/99 EST, Roger D. Peng wrote:
>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?
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