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LAN Help. Wont Recieve

Post by cyper »

Me and a friend are trying to connect our two computers together over lan.
Our computers connect together, but we cant actaully send anything to each other.
When we try to ping each other, the connection times out.
Our ip address's all work. We are sending, but not recieving.
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Post by mid_gen »

If you're connecting via a hub, use normal CAT5 cables, if you're connecting directly, make sure you're using a crossover CAT5 cable.

Make sure you both have IP addresses in the range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255, and both have subnet masks of 255.255.255.0

Trying pinging the loopback device on both machines. ping 127.0.0.1
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Post by Kulgan »

Yea, what mid_gen said ^_^
mid_gen wrote:Trying pinging the loopback device on both machines. ping 127.0.0.1
Would you explain this, to those of us who are desperately trying to figure out why pinging through a different interface is relevant?

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Post by PeteTheHair »

Kulgan wrote: Would you explain this, to those of us who are desperately trying to figure out why pinging through a different interface is relevant?
Cos it shows that the TCP stack is up and running... If this works, the cabling is likely to be suspect....

How many LANs you run? :)
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Post by Kulgan »

Um. PING uses the ICMP protocol, not TCP/IP.
Unless I'm mistaken...

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Post by mid_gen »

I've always found pinging the loopback device is pretty good way to determine if the windows network stack is ok.

Are you sure ICMP isn't part of the TCP/IP protocol suite?
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Post by putty_thing »

afaik, icmp is indeed part of ip

in addition to what the other guys suggested, i'd recommend checking for firewalls on either end (lots will reject even a simple ping, winxp has one built in) and more basically, check you've got a link :)
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Post by Chief »

99% sure its cos they arnt using a crossover.
icmp is at the same level as tcp and udp (although it uses udp).
chances of the stack being offline/shitty are low - its most likley the cable.
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