Cant ping windows network card, but can ping the linux card..

[Tor Harald Thorland]

Hi,

Thanks for all the answers!!
It was the damn virus scanner wich blocked it.
Now i'm only struggeling with getting the windows box to connect to the
internet through the linux box.

THT

man, 13.09.2004 kl. 18.45 skrev Robert Slade:
> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 07:56, Tor Harald Thorland wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I have tryed to setup a network with a couple of PC's.
> > The linux box has 2 NIC's one with static IP, connected to a DSL line.
> > (Internet working)
> > The other card has a static IP adress of 192.168.132.1
> > The windows XP box has IP 192.168.132.2
> > The windows box can ping the fedora core 2 pc nicely, but the fedora
> > box can't ping the windows box..!
> > Any suggestions? Anyone who can give me some help in solving this and
> > get the XP box on the net.
> >  
> > THT
> 
> I have just had a similar problem with FC2 and 2 network cards. The
> machine I was using to try FC2, was happily working and so was the
> network. Using a spare HD I put FC2 on it - no network, I could ping the
> network cards and local loopback but nothing else. I eventually found
> the problem to be that FC2 identifies the cards differently. What was
> eth0 on FC1 became eth1 with FC2 and vice versa. You may have something
> similar.
> 
> Rob 
>