Hello stephane, Wednesday, August 01, 2001, 5:25:46 PM, you wrote: sp> Donnie Linville wrote:
I assigned eth0 on the Pentium IP-192.168.0.4 and eth1 on the main machine IP-192.168.0.1.The cable goes directly from one card to the other.The host name/server list for eth0 on the Pentium I have played with, giving it my ISP's addresses and names, giving it eth1 on my main machines addresses, giving it nothing at all and it dosen't work.I tried pinging the both of them and nothing.Any suggestions?Or an overview of how this should be set up?Thanks for the help so far!!!!
sp> the first point that should be checked is your cable.... if you want to link 2 boxes directly, you must have a crossed cable... sp> the wires should go this way... sp> end 1 end 2 sp> 1 3 sp> 2 4 sp> 3 1 sp> 4 2 sp> 5 7 sp> 6 8 sp> 7 5 sp> 8 6 sp> Then you can go on with testing your network... sp> stephane I have two links http://www.links.ru/cbl/etherTPxTP.html http://wired.hard.ru/data/cables/ca_Ethernet10BaseTCrossover.shtml where is truth -- B/r, dan07 mailto:dan07@neti.ee