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Re: Network Setup Problems



	Subject: Network Setup Problems
	Date: Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 09:45:38PM -0500

In reply to:wax_man@bellsouth.net

Quoting wax_man@bellsouth.net(wax_man@bellsouth.net):
> 
> 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?
> 
> BTW, here is a basic diagram.
> 
>             PPP             192.168.1.1 - eth0          192.168.1.2
> Internet ---------------Linux ----------------------- win95

Look on your windows c drive for files lmhosts & hosts.  You
should put the addresses of both machines in them.  This assumes that
you have read the Networking howto's and have already setup all the
network info on the Linux side, of course.



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