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Old 12-01-2005, 10:28   #16
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Re: Help setting up network

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Originally Posted by Mags
Have you got the Windows XP firewall enabled on either of the machines? If so, this may be blocking the pings from getting through?

at the command prompt, immediately after typing the ping command, type arp -a. e.g, my machine is 192.168.1.100, if I ping 192.168.1.5 which exists on my network, I get the following -

E:\>arp -a

Interface: 192.168.1.100 --- 0x6
Internet Address Physical Address Type
192.168.1.5 00-a0-24-cb-d4-84 dynamic

If I ping 192.168.1.6 which doesn't, I get this -

E:\>arp -a

Interface: 192.168.1.100 --- 0x6
Internet Address Physical Address Type
192.168.1.6 00-00-00-00-00-00 invalid

Note the Physical address is all 0's and type is invalid

If you get the former and the ping isn't working, the most likely cause is you have a firewall on the machine

Mags
Both XP firewalls are OFF.

Not sure what you mean by the arp -a. I type in ping 192.168.1.105arp -a and get told it's a bad parameter????
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