Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP
I own a cd burner and two CDROM, so I'm doing this overall as a
"training" in net conections, but I must resolve this before I can take
a most difficult challenge: a real mini-home-Lan
Chris Majewski wrote:
>
> 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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