[Gllug] bridging ports on a 3com switch

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Xander D Harkness wrote:

> My brother who is still stuck at work trying to get a wireless link 
> going has run into a couple of difficulties.
> 
> not the other way round.
> 
> If the patch cables are reversed it is possible to do so the other way 
> round.
> 

I'm off to beddies now - and I assume you are too!

Assume that all computers are on the same subnet - say 192.168.1.xxx
(I say that but you do mention routing)

Get your brother to broadcast ping on both PCs, and display the arp table


ping -b 192.169.1.255
arp -an

(-n option for numerical - don't bother with DNS lookups)

Then make sure both PCs can communicate with the DNS server
arp -a  or a few nslookups



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