Hello, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am having some problems getting my lan working. I'm trying to > > connect my win95 machine to my linux machine. Both have 3c509's > > connected to a hub. I've given my linux box 192.168.1.1 and windows > > 192.168.1.2. However, I can not ping either machine from the other. > > Any ideas?
When I was at the same stage, I eventually figured out that I had mismatched network masks. Oops. I guess the lesson would be, re-check everything to make sure it's exactly correct... > > BTW, here is a basic diagram. > > > > PPP 192.168.1.1 - eth0 192.168.1.2 > > Internet ---------------Linux ----------------------- win95 > > > > Have you set up your network file correctly?? Don't forget there's setup on the Win95 machine, too... conveniently arranged so that you can't change your card driver without losing your protocol setup. To any networking problem, there's always two ends and the middle. Either of the two ends may be at fault. The middle also. I assume you have win95 set to use TCP/IP, otherwise you wouldn't get the dialog box where you set the IP address. > route add -net 192.168.1.0 Don't forget that if you run "route" without arguments, it'll show you what's set up. Same for ifconfig, with some statistics. If you give it the "-a" switch, it'll show you all interfaces, not just the ones that are up. A small but very useful script (if you're coming from Win95, anyway): sed -e'/^[^:]*$/d;s/:.*/: This device is working properly./' /proc/net/dev Well, maybe not *that* useful, but it may help ease the transition :-) HTH Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
