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Re: Win & Potato on LAN



You know there has to be a default gateway with the NIC in Windows!
Also which version of Windows 95/98 or WindowsNT/2000.

Dan

---- Vitux <viggovap@mail.worldonline.dk> wrote:
> 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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