Paul,
How are the PC's connected?? Do you have a Hub?? If not, I assume
you are aware that you will have to use a cross-over cable to connect the
2 PC's..
Regards
Chris
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> I've been testing the network between my machine and my wife's Windows
> machine. These are the only two machines on the network, attached by
> 10BaseT. She can ping herself (gumby) and I can ping myself (rocky) both
> by numeric IP and by name. However, when we ping each other, we basically
> get "host unreachable." I even tried a flood ping for fun.
>
> Below is the output from ifconfig. What's odd is that I would expect to
> see something other than 0 for the TX packets number for eth0 below. It
> looks like my pinging was going out from the lo interface (see the TX
> packets number for lo) instead of the eth0 interface.
>
> Am I right here, and if so, what's wrong and how can I fix it? (BTW, this
> is RH6.1 and I've restarted the eth0 interface just to make sure.)
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:6C:ED:A3
> inet addr:192.168.10.1 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:2896 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:37 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:3327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:3327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
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> Paul Foster
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