Leigh,

The Dazed and Confused thread might help.

Default gateway, names of machines, is card UP under ifconfig (I missed this at first so apologies if it sounds like egg sucking lessons), does RH 'see' the card - man cardmgr helped me.

HTH

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: Leigh Mason <leigh.mason@virgin.net>
To: <Gllug@linux.co.uk>
Sent: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:26:51 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: [Gllug] simple lan

> hi all
> i have a patch cable from an imac to a vaio laptop  which i  use for file
> exchange via tcp/ip
> within browsers. (macOS and w98). i am trying to do the same thing when
> running
> linux on the laptop (rh7.0, 2.2.16) but i can't even get the mac to ping to
> the vaio and vice versa.
> i've configured the eth0 with linuxconf and checked the:
> /etc/sysconfig/network, hosts and host.conf  files and  ifconfig.
> all i thought i had to do was assign an ip and subnet for a cross over
> connection. 
> do i have to do anything with the routing table?
> 
> any clues as to what am i missing?
> 
> thanks
> 
> leigh
> 
> 
> 
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