Direct Ethernet Connection

spelltoronto · 01-26-2006, 11:42 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to connect a WinXP Pro box to a RHEL 3.0 box with a direct ethernet connection (crossover cable) Does anyone know how I need to configure the network settings on each box to make this work properly?

Thanks for any suggestions

pljvaldez · 01-26-2006, 12:11 PM

You can do one of a few things:

1) assign static IP addresses to each of the boxes (i.e. 192.168.1.20 & 192.168.1.21).
2) Leave WinXP using DHCP and install a dhcp server to the RHEL box.

Basically, all you need to do is make sure the two network cards have the same subnet (192.168.1.XXX). Then they will be connected together.

Now what are you trying to do once they're connected? Because that could be more involved (i.e. samba for filesharing, apache for webserver, proftp for an ftp server, etc)

spelltoronto · 01-26-2006, 01:33 PM

Basically, I just need full functionality of the TCP/IP Protocol stack. So do I have to have the RHEL box act as a DHCP server, DNS server, or both? I've got the 2 working by using a switch in between them, static IPs on the same subnet and for name resolution, just using the hosts files on RHEL, and the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on the WinXP machine. I'd like the same funcionality, but without the switch in the middle.....

pljvaldez · 01-26-2006, 01:41 PM

If you already have them set up with static ip's and they're talking, you should just be able to replace the switch with a crossover cable and not need DHCP or DNS.

spelltoronto · 02-01-2006, 11:00 AM

It seems that when I replace the switch with a crossover cable, the machines can only ping eachother and do ftp, but other tcp/ip and udp traffic on various ports is not communicating....

spelltoronto · 03-23-2006, 07:36 PM

For some reason now I can only ping the Linux box from Windows, but not the other way around. I'm using a crossover cable, static IPs and hosts/lmhosts files for IP to name resolution.

Any ideas on why I can't ping the Linux box? The NIC card on the Linux box also has the orange LED on which obviously means there is a network problem, but the Windows PC seems fine network wise....