networking 101..

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

I seem to recall somewhere earlier in this thread the mention that link was not established (I think it was stated as lights on internal nic were not lighting). Have you checked:

a) Associated nic is installed correctly (physically and driver-wise)?
b) All associated cabling is correct and functional?


Sean extolled:
> your nic on your win98 wont matter _if_ @home isnt locking onto your MAC
> address, maybe someoen else knows if this does happen. 
> 
> You are running eth1 -> hub -> win98 box or using a crossover cable arent
> you?
> 
> you can get a list of what ipchains rules you have in place with 
> "ipchains --list"
> 
> It should have some rules it lists.
> 
> The ipchains commands you need to run, i believe Ben posted in a previous
> email. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Don Chorman wrote:
> 
> > I have checked my Win98 settings, and they appear 
> > to be ok. In my win98 box, I am using the NIC 
> > that @home provided with the cable modem. I wonder 
> > if that is the problem. I am tempted to put a different
> > NIC in the win98 machine to see if that is the problem.
> > Do I have to have IPchains up and running for my network
> > to work? How to I tell if it is running? 
> > 
> > Don
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
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Network Engineering
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