<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Gavin McCullagh wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20071228173756.GD14030@gmail.com" type="cite">Now that's not easy (lying on the floor underneath my desk while <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">reaching up and hitting enter on the keyboard). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Linux's ping command should keep pinging once a second until you say stop. </pre> </blockquote> Well it definitely wasn't doing that. <blockquote cite="mid:20071228173756.GD14030@gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">and pinging my ppp0 address (which goes through eth1) produced some flashing, but there are flashed every few seconds on that card anyway. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ppp0 goes through eth1 as well?</pre> </blockquote> Oops. I meant eth0. :) <blockquote cite="mid:20071228173756.GD14030@gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">If you can't ping the linux machine from windows and see the icmp packets </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">on the tcpdump, I'd be inclined to say there's something wrong with the network or something very strange wrong with the linux machine. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">The two windows computers now access each other but not my Linux "server". I'm going to boot into Windows myself to confirm that it's connected that way. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You can try setting 192.168 addresses on the windows machines but I don't think there's connectivity between the server and the clients (or else perhaps the pppoe is messing it up). </pre> </blockquote> I'll try that (although probably not today...) Thanks. </body> </html>