Re: ethernet between 2 computers


<milagro.kekua@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I dropped my switch because currently there is only a PC and a laptop at
> home. They have fixed IPs and don't see each other. When I insert a
> switch between them everything works fine.
> So far I tried arp -s <host> <HW> and I reinstalled network-cards
> without success.
> Since I own a working switch this is not a real problem, but I don't
> understand what is going on here.

If you hook the two PCs to each other with the same cable you used to
connect them to the switch, you are connecting transmit on one to transmit
on the other and receive on one to receive on the other. That usually
doesn't work out so well.

DS


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