Good point. And frankly, I'm definitely groping here, as this one is quite
the poser.
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 17:15, Chuck Norcutt
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Not easily done since the cables are of dramatically different lengths
> with one of them routed through the wall. But I can do it by moving the
> laptop into the office and using a different cable. Just not now since
> Mrs. laptop user has had enough of my debugging exercises on her machine
> today.
>
> But, I really fail to see how the cables could be involved when each
> machine can ping the router.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 7/31/2011 7:18 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
> > 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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