[ale] home networking difficulties

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A. Knapka)]

Jonathan Glass wrote:
> 
> Are these machiens connected via a hub, or connected directly?  I've
> seen strange things like this when direct connecting two machines sans a
> crossover cable.

Oh yes. Definitely check your cabling before blaming the
NIC or the software. You can get into trouble by using
a crossover cable with a hub, too. If you have a hub
with an uplink port or switch, you can test this
hypothesis by switching from the uplink port to a
normal port, or toggling the uplink switch while
one machine's cable is plugged into the uplink
port. If it works with uplink enabled, you have
a crossover cable where you need a straight-through.

Cheers,

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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