> As I said, it amazes me that a crossover cable would work at all with > a router. I can only imagine that the router has had functionality > built into it to monitor signals on both the "in" and "out" pins, > unless I'm missing something obvious. > > Sean Sean, Many modern routers/switches can automagically do this.
Javad, a) Does the P3/P4 machine have a 100MB port? b) Have you checked the cables are OK, by temporarily swapping them for some "known good" cables? c) It may be an idea to assign static IPs to the PCs and connect them with the cross over cable to rule out the router being the problem... Lee -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
