Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP
No idea, but I had the same problem last summer, and gave up (I was
setting up a new machine and ended up transferring the data via 100M
Zip disks)..
-chris
"Dr. Aldo Medina" <aldo_medina@yahoo.com> writes:
> I'm trying to connect my PII 350 with Debian 2.2r2 potato (kernel
> 2.2.17) with my PIII 800 with Debian woody (2.2.18 recompiled) using a
> "laplink" cable. I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already
> tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove
> anything, but..), I still can't make this to work. I stop in the ping
> step. My potato says plip0: transmit timeout(1,87) and my woody stays
> forever waiting for an answer. This are my settings:
>
> potato:
>
> plip0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:C0:A8:00:01
> inet addre:192.168.0.1 P-t-P:192.168.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
> Interrupt:7 Base address:0x378
>
> route 192.168.0.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 plip0
> 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 plip0
>
> woody:
>
> plip0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FC:FC:C0:A8:00:02
> inet addre:192.168.0.2 P-t-P:192.168.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
> Interrupt:7 Base address:0x378
>
> route 192.168.0.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 plip0
> 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 plip0
>
> They're supposedly ok, but when I try to connect they don't communicate.
> ¿any suggestion?
>
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