On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:13:41 -0800, you wrote: >I have a cable modem, a Windows box and a linux box. Both computers are >connected to the internet through a hub and both have their own IP addresses >to connect. This works perfectly.
Is it a hub or a router? If it's a hub you should be able to ping from one box to the other.. If ping fails start there. Your IP's are both in the same subnet aren't they? With ,presumably, the cable device acting as the gateway if the subnets and routing aren't right the devices will not be able to cross-talk. Devices which connect from cable modems to a network may have routing setup that stops the 'hub' connections cross-talking (i've got a Cisco unit set up that way). If you can't find the spec's for your hub to see if it's got routing built in you could test this theory by buying or borrowing a cheap hub and temporarily plug your network leads into that. If you can ping with the cheap hub installed but not with the cable-hub then your cable-hub is a router which needs re-configuration. Good luck Tony
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