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Hi,
Am am currently trying to setup a simple network between Linux Redhat8 and WinXP.
After trying some settings (cant recall wich ) my network card status is 'inactive' (eth0). It also cant be activated.'The card was active before, and it's a new card also.
After reading in the forums I tried 'ifconfig etho up'', but nothing hapenned also.
Can anyone help me please?
Kind regards
Patrick
PS when I type ifconfig eth0 I get:
Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:27:d0:e7
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric1
RX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collissions:0 txqueeulen:100
RX bytes:7792 (7.6 Kb) TX bytes:4446 (4.3 kb)
Interupt:11 Base address:x5000
When you want to connect two machines, you don't need DHCP (it's a good idea in large networks). Just use two static IPs: 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3, for example.
I tried that:
My winXP has 192.168.0.2 and redhat has 192.168.0.1
The problem is I can only ping FROM the winxp to redhat, if I ping on linux to my winxp ip I get 100% loss.
Also when I reboot the systeem, I get a failed messages saying it could obtain an ip address
Any idea?
Last edited by cuboctahedron; 02-22-2003 at 04:35 PM.
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