Hello.
I have tried to config a network on my two computers this afternoon,
(I have 2 computers now, none was ever networked but ppp)
One of them runs RefHat 5.2 and the other RedHat 6.0
The cards are ISA PnP NE2000,
which I configured with isapnp, and it works.
(it blinks when I try to use it)
After I ran linuxconf/netconf/netcfg (and changed /etc/hosts so I can
type a name instead of an address),
When I rebooted it connected me to the network. (192.168.0.1 and
192.168.0.2)
(though RH6 had problems with isapnp on booting my RH6, I used it
manualy in the end).
I tried to ping from every computer to itself (not via localhost, but
via the network addresses) and it worked fine.
But when I tried to ping from one computer to the next it couldn't
connect.
Am I missing something?
Can the cable itself be the source of the problem (they had some
problems cutting it for me)
AFAIK what I did was what I've been told by the NET3-Howto,
(ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up)
and it didn't work as well. (i assume that's what the RH init script
does anyway)
Please help,
Thanks,
Yoni.
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