Re: Troubleshooting XP <-> Fedora 2 crossover cable connection.

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:23:58 +0100

In comp.os.linux.networking Manas Ranade <manasranade@yahoo.com>:
> Hi,

> I have two machines with following eth configs:

> Win XP Prof (no SP2):
> IP: 192.168.0.10
> Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
> No gateway
> No DNS

> Fedora Core2:
> IP: 192.168.0.11
> Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
> No gateway
> No DNS
> ip_forward=1

> I can ping only from fedora, unable to ping from XP.

> 1. I havn't checked with another crossover cable since I can ping one
> way. Would be a good idea to check another cable?

If one way works, the other should be OK, since packets are
already going in both directions.

One reason might be you enabled firewalling on the fedora box,
which could disable ICMP echo requests. Try disabling the firewall
and retry.

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