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Well, I'm pulling my hair out over this one (and I have a lot of it)

First, thanks to all who helped me with my ethernet cards, they are now 
both recognized by Linux. But...

They won't talk!

First, a rundown: Grass is a 386/40 with a 3COM 509B-TPO card, Chimera is 
a Toshiba 5200/100 with a SMC8000 (SMC's ethernet deivision was bought by 
Western Digital, BTW), and Blade, an old Mac SE with some flavor of 
functioning ethernet card (I'm pretty sure it's SMC/WD). 

So, I hooked Grass and Chimera up to each other using a crossover cable. 
The ethernet cards ahve very nice green lights that come on when you have 
a correctly wired conenction, and they came on. So, at least the cards 
beleive they are correctly connected. I defined IP's broadcast, network 
etc..using 192.193.194.* (grass is 1, chimera is 2, blade is 3). So, 
here's the config fromm grass:

IPADDR="192.193.194.1"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
NETWORK="192.193.194.0"
BROADCAST="192.193.194.255"
GATEWAY="205.252.44.251" (this is my provder. Teh other machines are set 
to 192.193.194.1 ie: grass)

then I implement a 

/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} dev eth0

But grass can't ping chimera, and chimera can't ping grass. Teh SMC card 
in chimera has an amber transmit light that, interestingly enought, 
doesn't come on when I'm pinging, neither does the transmit light when 
grass does the pining. 

Yes, /etc/networks has a "localnet" entry, which is set to "192.193.194.0"

Does anybody know what part of the routing isn't set right? I've checked 
the man pages, gut they're not happening much.

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