Ethernet newbee failure

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

I have added Ethernet cards to two machines, one my Linux box, the other
my partner's Win'95 machine. To reduce the configuration problems, I
installed Debian on the second drive of my partner's machine, reducing the
problem to two Linux machines connected through the same hardware.

Machine one is 10.1.1.10 and machine two is 10.1.1.20.

>From either machine I can ping that machine but not the other one. Both
cards seem to be working, but I have no network connection. I set them
both up with ifconfig and route add, and when I do an ifconfig, I get the
following:

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:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:DE:C8:16
          inet addr:10.1.1.10  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:21 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300


The only thing that looks strange here is the Bcast: and Mask:, but I
didn't set them. It isn't clear that this is the failure either.

I'm pretty ignorant about this stuff, but I think I did everything I need
to have a LAN but it doesn't work. Any ideas?

All informative flames appreciated ;-)

Dwarf
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