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Re: Having TCP/IP trouble

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From: Louis Goldstein
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:41
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In article <Bxzx2u.EwB@vti.com>, rickr@vti.com (Rick Rodman) writes:
|> Everything seems to work... I have a PC cabled to a Sun which has an ext
|> transceiver with lights on it.  The lights flash when the PC pings but
|> the Sun respondeth not.  Similarly, when the Sun pings, the PC respondeth
|> not.  They appear to be ships passing in the night.  I'm afraid I've spent
|> more time looking at this and scratching my head than I want, but I have
|> no idea which way to proceed.  I've tried turning on and off canonical, etc.
|> - every option in ICAT - none help.  I've also tried fiddling directly
|> with ifconfig and making it look EXACTLY like it looks on the Sun - no help.

I had exactly the same symptoms, and the problem turned out to be an incorrect 
setting for the "route" in "\tcpip\bin\setup.cmd".  Having that pointing to the
wrong machine (not sure if it didn't exist or what) caused anything sent from
the PS/2 to be lost.  What's likely happening (what was happening to me) was
that when you ping the PC from the sun, the PC gets the message, but the 
reply gets lost.

Hope this helps,
Louis
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From: louis@arapaho.ucsc.edu (Louis Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Having TCP/IP trouble
Keywords: Ping works. Beta CD
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