[ILUG] Network Problem [probably OT]

[Ruairi Hickey]

It could be iptables blocking the ping, type arp -a at the prompt to see 
if the mac address of the remote machine is resolved


Ruairi

David wrote:

> Im sure im missing something very silly but here goes.....
>
> Ive two linux boxes one Mandrake and t'other Red Hat  which I can 
> network nicely through a little Netgear hub no bother at all.
>
> I need to add a Windoze 2k box becasue my new printer hasnt got a 
> Linux driver that I can find that works 100%. and I cant get the PC  
> to network!
>
> So the Mandrake box has two nic's eth0 for the cable modem and eth1 
> for the LAN.  Eth0 is DHCP and is A ok Eth1 I have set to static with 
> an IP of 192.168.0.2 both interfaces come up fine.  On the windows box 
> I've set  the TCP/IP properties to static with an address of  
> 192.168.0.3 subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.  I can ping both 127.0.0.1 
> and 192.168.0.3 on the windows box but not 192.168.0.2.  Host 
> unreachable.
>
> Whats missing?
>
> TIA
>
> David
>
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