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[Jerry Callen]

TWDM wrote:

> can ping locally on each machine, but can not ping machine to machine

Routing?

Can you type a few commands on each machine and post the output?
"ifconfig" will reveal the address you've given the interface
and the subnet mask:

# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:BA:D0:F2  
          inet addr:172.23.17.1  Bcast:172.23.17.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:370882 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:299725 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 
# 

Once you have that, "route" will display the routing table:

# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
172.23.17.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0       32 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        2 lo
# 

Yours should look something like the one above. If you don't have any 
routes for eth0, you have to add one. It's something like:

	% route add 172.23.17.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0

Now, one othe thing: how are the two machines physically cabled? Do
you have both machines plugged into a hub, or are they directly
cabled? In the later case, you have to use a "crossover" cable
that flips the transmit and receive pairs.

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