Re: and we won't stop..

[Brendon <bren@europe.nl.com>]

On Saturday 23 June 2001 03:52, you wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 03:25:07AM +0200, Brendon wrote:
> > 2 comps connected to a hub which gets it's 'uplink' from the gateway. one
> > of these computers can ping the gateway (both external ip and internal)
> > and the net. while the other can only ping the other none gateway
> > computer but neither the internal or external ip of the gateway.
>
> Try it with the gateway plugged into an ordinary socket.  Leave the
> "uplink" port unused.

and voila, the newbie's troubles end. I'd ask why.. but i'm too tired to be 
curious. time to sleep.


cheers Joost,

Brendon