yea sounds like it, however, ping uses ICMP and file transfer
applications normally use TCP
i have had one case where a computer could ping stuff but nothing else
because the tcp stacked was messed up and only icmp was working...
was a winXP box tho lol ..... !
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
He said it could ping... I dunno... seems he just needs to figure out
how he wants to transfer files.
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matt Richards wrote:
Bryan Whitehead wrote:
What do you mean by xover? FTP? SCP? NFS? Coda? HTTP?
I guess by xover they mean as in 2 NIC's one cable cross wired!
Matt.
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> > Anybody got this working between two PCs and can tell
> me how to edit the conf files?
> > The NICs are found, the modules are loaded, the net is
> up and both PCs can ping each other. But transferring
> files fails.
> > FWIW tcpdump indicates the two PCs are aware of each
> other.
> > ssh2 is probably overkill since security is not an
> issue but ftp didn't work either.
> > -Maxim
>
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