Matthew Dalton wrote: > > I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already > > tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove > > anything, but..) > > It proves that the cables are okay. > > >, I still can't make this to work. I stop in the ping > > step. My potato says plip0: transmit timeout(1,87) and my woody stays > > forever waiting for an answer. This are my settings: > > What happens if you try to ping from the woody machine?
When I try to ping from the woody machine, it stays forever waiting for an answer > > ¿any suggestion? > > Do you have any ipchains rules setup on either of the machines? > Does one of the machines have a modem and is used to dial in to the > internet? Maybe your firewall rules are stoping the packets getting > through. input (policy ACCEPT) forward (policy DENY): MASQ all ----- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere n/a output (policy ACCEPT) > Check the log files in /var/log for any denied packet log entries (you > did use the 'log' switch with ipchains, didn't you?) or kernel error > messages. Nothing in the log > You could also use 'traceroute' to see how far the packets are getting. They don't go anywhere, just my box is listed. > > HTH > Matthew _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
