On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Yoni Elhanani wrote:
Are the network cards connected back to back ?
If so, is the cable a cross wired cable ?
And by the way, afaik, if you ping a local interface, you'll still go via
the bitbucket (loopback).
--Ariel
> 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 RH6had 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.
>
> --
>
> The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck,
> is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners...
>
>
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