I know this is sort of off-topic, but some of you guys must have done this: My machine (Potato): combined dial-up-server (routing thru the ppp-isdn-link) and workstation. Wife's machine: winblows for wife's work and kid's games. Both machines equipped with identical RealTek8029PCI nics, hooked up with RJ45-cable and a small 5-port hub.
Potato works fine with ne2k-driver as module. (thanks to a lot of you guys!) When I ping winblows, the hub flashes, but all packets are lost. So it seems Potato is fine, but winblows isn't?!. The setup is: Potato: 192.168.0.1, netmask 255.255.255.0 Winblows: 192.168.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.0 Potato can ping itself and seems to "get out" as well. Winblows can ping itself, but nothing outside. On winblows, I've set the IP-address in ControlPanel-Networking (I think it's called that in english; wife's on a danish version...), and told it to use lan for internet-connections (explorer-settings). However, if I ping Potato, I get "cannot access host". I've tried different values for the netmask and adresses, to no avail. Winblows seems to have a dozen places to put stuff. I'm really getting to like the Linux way of doing it; I must have set about 2 conf-files before I was running. (besides recompiling a new kernel...) Anyone got a clue on this one? Best Regards Vitux -- "I'm not a crook" Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
