Win & Potato on LAN
I know this is sort of off-topic, but some of you guys must have
done this:
My machine (Potato): combined dial-up-server (routing thru the
ppp-isdn-link) and workstation.
Wife's machine: winblows for wife's work and kid's games.
Both machines equipped with identical RealTek8029PCI nics, hooked up
with RJ45-cable and a small 5-port hub.
Potato works fine with ne2k-driver as module. (thanks to a lot of
you guys!)
When I ping winblows, the hub flashes, but all packets are lost.
So it seems Potato is fine, but winblows isn't?!.
The setup is:
Potato: 192.168.0.1, netmask 255.255.255.0
Winblows: 192.168.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.0
Potato can ping itself and seems to "get out" as well.
Winblows can ping itself, but nothing outside.
On winblows, I've set the IP-address in ControlPanel-Networking (I
think it's called that in english; wife's on a danish version...),
and told it to use lan for internet-connections (explorer-settings).
However, if I ping Potato, I get "cannot access host".
I've tried different values for the netmask and adresses, to no
avail. Winblows seems to have a dozen places to put stuff.
I'm really getting to like the Linux way of doing it; I must have
set about 2 conf-files before I was running. (besides recompiling a
new kernel...)
Anyone got a clue on this one?
Best Regards
Vitux
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"I'm not a crook"
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