[Gllug] simple lan

[John Hearns]

Alex Hudson wrote:

>On Tuesday 18 September 2001 16:09, you wrote:
>
>>No. My guess would be it's because you're using a patch cable without
>>a hub. If you're connecting two machines directly, then you'll need a
>>crossover cable (or is it straight through? I can never remember which
>>is which).
>>
>
>Crossover for straight thru and uplinks, patch for the rest. I think he 
>mentioned he was using cross, though.
>
>I want to know how he managed to ping from a Mac - please share this golden 
>info ;))
>
>I would guess that there's a problem with the Mac TCP/IP setting. It might 
>not like 10.0.0/24, because that's a bit odd (I know it doesn't like setting 
>a DNS search root to something without a dot in it too, depending how early a 
>version it is). I would do a tcpdump on the linux box while trying to view a 
>web page on the Mac or something, 
>

There's also a network sniffer which runs on the Mac, available for
free trial download.
Can't remember what the name is at the moment, but I did once
have reason to use it in anger.




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