Anonymous sources within the White House report:
> I'm trying to make two machines, a Windows 2000 and a Linux box, talk to
> each other via a hub. I figured this would be the easy part of setting
> up the network once I had Linux talking to the cable modem and running
> masquerading. Unfortunately, neither machine can ping the other; both
> can ping their own IP address.
>
> The link lights are on at the hub. The lights blink whenever a ping is
> trying to go across.
>
> Tcpdump on the linux box shows nothing when teh windows box is sending a
> ping; it shows the outgoing packet when the linux box is trying to send
> a ping.
>
> BTW, the windows box is 192.168.0.2, the linux box is 192.168.0.1.
>
> Any help would be appreciated - I'm not sure what would cause this
> problem.
>
An update - apprently the problem was with the NIC in the linux box. A
stupid thing I should have checked first.
Thanks to everyone who helped! Now I just need to figure out how to get
two NIC that use the same module (tulip) to load together...
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