On January 11, 2004 08:59 am, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote: > > That is just plain wrong. You should not need a connection to your > > external > > > router in order to ping between two internal machines (assuming you are > > pinging the real IP addresses, and not relying on a DNS lookup or > > something). > > Indeed.... > > > Your IRQ/address etc setup looks fine to me, however there is clearly > > something weird about the network hardware arrangement for you to get the > > above-described ping behaviour. > > Such as the router and the switch being connected for no reason? I was > obviously on crack when I set that up.... just found out that was the > problem.... strange that everything would work perfectly for hours then > stop working for minutes, etc... probably a table filling up in the switch > or the router or both :-) > > Well, I made you waste a few minutes and wasted a nice sunday morning doing > this instead of being with my girlfriend, on the bright side I got a spare > network cable, give me your address if you want a slice :-) > Getting outta bed late, I was about to suggest that there was an 802.11x interface on both the windersbox and the DSL router that was active ... *grin* -- but yea extra wandering cable would certainly be the problem. Just something to keep in mind -- I've seen it. Alistair. > Thanks!
