Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After I could not get MDK 7.2 on my notebook via ftp I installed
> TinyLinux from floppy to get a working system and to find out more
> about ftp'ing.
> I cannot connect to the other machine - either direction.
[...]
I didn't see anything wrong in the details.
> Connection is made with a cross-over cable. When I ping molch from
> lapmolch (using name or IP) I see the indicator led on the cable and
> on the nic at molch blinking. But no connection is made. 100% packet
> loss.
> Same thing in the other direction.
Unless the machines are "seeing" each other, the LEDs are only an indication of
ARPing (broadcast packets) which must complete before any ping packets are
sent. What does "arp -a" give on each...?
If each machine does not contain the MAC address of the other, you will need to
resort to one of ethereal, tcpdump, Spy, etc to see if the ARP packets are
arriving.
> I'm lost...
We will try to guide you to the led^H^H^Hlight... :^)
Pierre
