On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:21:52PM +0100, Vincent Murphy mentioned:
> = Vincent Murphy <theDon at cs.ucc.ie> [19991003 2015]:
> [snip..]
> > .. for now i'd like to verify that the
> > ethernet works, and if it does try something else.
>> i think i've managed to verify that the ethernet is working. i installed
> tcpdump on the debian box, and did the following:
>> time action
> ---- ------
> 22:10 on 192.168.0.100 (linux box): `ping -c4 192.168.0.200'
> 22:11 on 192.168.0.200 (windows box): `ping 192.168.0.100'
Hint one: Don't use a network of 192.168.0 - use 192.186.1 or something.
Some OS's use '0' as a broad cast. Don't think Linux does, but try it and
see. Also, have you set the netmask to be something reasonable like
255.255.255.0 ?
Kate
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