On Sunday 27 January 2002 03:23 am, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hi all - > its that time again (debian mailing list help!) > I set up a second box, with Caldera OL 3.1 and a 3com 3c509b card in > it. > with adsl i can use it to go online fine... > i have 2 NetGear FA 310 cards in my debian box... i can use either card > to > go online... and i have used both of my cables to go online... so > hardware wise all seem to work... > but.... i cant ping between boxes > Debian > eth0 : 10.10.10.2 mask 255.255.255.0 > also tried > eth0 : 192.168.1.2 mask 255.255.255.0 > > eth1 : 192.168.1.10 mask 255.255.255.0 > > Caldera > eth0 : 10.10.10.5 mask 255.255.255.0 > also tried > eth0 : 192.168.1.20 mask 255.255.255.0 > > of course, i always had "matching" addresses (on the same network). > but i dont get a green light on the cards, and i cant ping! > I re-emphasize that i can connect to the DSL modem with any of the > cards/cables... > Anyone have an idea on what is going on? >
wouldn't the cables to used to connect to a modem from a nic be some kind of crossover cable? if so, there's your problem. you need a straight cable between the two nic's.
