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Wayne Izatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Neither box can ping the other.
You're not going to get anywhere as long as this is the case. You have
a problem with your local LAN, and all the masquerade stuff is just
adding needless complication. If you can't get your two machines to
telenet, ftp, or ping each other, you have no hope of getting anything
else working.
> Linux box has static ip assigned by my cable modem supplier.
That's not important, since the internal LAN is the issue.
I guess the only thing I can think of is, are you trying to ping using
IP addresses, or hostnames? If you use IP addresses, then there isn't
much to prevent the ping from going out. If hostnames, well, one or the
other of your boxes could be trying to do a DNS lookup, which might be
working for an unrelated reason.
Make sure your /etc/hosts file has your local LAN's proper names and
addresses listed. Also put a copy of that file in the C:\WINDOWS
directory on your Windows clients, so they will be able to lookup at
least those hosts, even if DNS and such are not working.
Also, a ping from the Linux box really ought to work, because its DNS
service is probably working perfectly.
When you ping, does "ifconfig" show the packet counts increasing for the
proper interface? Does ping give you a reason why it fails, or does it
just hang? If you run "arp -a", do you see the MAC address of the other
LAN card appear, or is it "incomplete"? If the latter, it really sounds
like something is physically cabled wrong, or a card is simply not
working. Do you have other cables? Are you trying to connect two cards
together without using a hub, or a twisted cable?
So many things to try.. :)
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