Raena, > I have tried this with 5cat crossover ethernet cable and also tried > straight cable, just in case, as the i-book Help said it did not need > crossover cable.
Do the network cards have lights on the back that indicate connection and activity? When you connect the two boxes with cross-over cable, check to see if the cards connection light comes on. Do you have access to a hub? even just a quick borrow? Again check to see if you get connection lights on the hub when you plug the boxes in, (straight cable this time). No lights, no dice! Could be a bad cable, X-over should be end 1 Os, O, GS, B, Bs, G, Brs, Br end 2 Gs, G, Os, B, Bs, O, Brs, Br (O=orange, Os=orange stripe, etc) If you are confident that the hardware is wired ok, then do an # arp This should list the HW ethernet addresses of any other machines on the "lan". I.E if the other machines ether net address is listed, then proves that the machines are "wired" at the ethernet level. If this is ok then check that the boxes have a valid routing table, at the IP level, I.E "# netstat -r" should return, Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo Still not working.... err check that ipchains/iptables isn't configured on the Linux box, # ipchains -L -n or iptables -L -n Still not working.... errr.... Post here again? HTH Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
