are you using DHCP on the windows machines or static IP's?
Quaylar wrote:
>
> hiho...
>
> as u will possibly know from various earlier posts i am trying to connect a
> linux and a win machine through thin ethernet.
> up to now i was having the problem that the 2 machines were not able to
> ping each other although everything was set right on both sides..
>
> now i found a posting on deja where a guy described the same problem, he
> was stating that his lan was working IF:
>
> he first powered up the win machine and THEN the linux machine......
>
> so i tried this and it really worked, the lan works when i am first
> powering up the win machine and then the linux machine, vice versa i get
> ping timeouts......
>
> has anyone of u already experienced this or can anyone give any hints on
> this phenomenon ?...
>
> any thoughts will be appreciated......;)
>
> --quay
>
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