I'm sure my answer is in one of the HOW-TO's, but I bet it is one of those 30s fixes when you know what you're doing, so I'll go straight to the people who know what there doing. I apologize in advance for taking up bandwidth.
I have two linux boxes that used to be sitting in my office at school. When I graduated, I took them with me and now they're home. I had managed to get them hooked up to the school network without any major difficulty. Once I got them home, I figured that all I had to do to network them was to hook them to either end of a network cable. I used the BNC connector and both ends have a 'T' and a terminator. I didn't change any of the network settings, including the IPs. Since the network isn't connected to the outside world, I figured that shouldn't be a problem. Now I can ping either computer from the other one, and all appears well. When I try to telnet of ftp between them, however, I get the login prompt, and then the connection just hangs. Any ideas? Peter
