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.
Please help
LAN Help. Wont Recieve
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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
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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Cos it shows that the TCP stack is up and running... If this works, the cabling is likely to be suspect....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?
How many LANs you run?
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"If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1"
"If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1"
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?
Are you sure ICMP isn't part of the TCP/IP protocol suite?
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