Switch the cables between the two machines and see if the ping results
follow the cable. That would indicate it might be a bad cable.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 14:43, Chuck Norcutt
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Under Windows I reset the TCPIP stacks on both machines according to the
> fixit article Jez referenced below. Absolutely no change.
>
> But then I finally recalled (I'm a little slow) that both of these
> machines have Linux installed. So I rebooted into Linux on both
> machines and tried pinging from Linux to Linux. I get exactly the same
> results as Windows. The laptop can ping the router but can't ping the
> desktop. The desktop can ping both.
>
> So, what does this mean? Does it mean there's a hardware problem or
> does it mean that Windows has diddled some registers in the network
> cards that Linux is simply using as is?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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