Hi Tony,

The pertinent part of your post seems to be that you can't connect the two PC's. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that you can't ping one PC from the other? How have you connected the PC's? You should be using either a crossover cable or a hub. Which are you using?

The IPConfig command from a DOS prompt on the W2K PC will tell you what your network settings are.
The ifconfig command on the Linux box will do the same for the other PC.
These are handy commands to tell if your settings are correct.

As Joel said, the card connecting to the cable modem should be set to DHCP unless you have been assigned a static IP (unlikely). The cable connecting this card to the cable modem should be a standard cable, not a crossover cable.

Hope this helps.

Liam





>Hey sorry for my lack of knowledge:
>but i got three network cards, one in on the w2k pc, the other two are on the linux-box, if i do static in all 3, 192.168.0.1 goes on card to the cable-modem
>192.168.0.2 goes on the second card to be connected to the w2k machine and in the w2k machine i could go 192.168.0.3.
>Now the gateway would be the card going to the cable modem, is this right?
>
>But I tried static , non-static (DCHP), combination of both and still cannot connect these two machines. Is there some kind of standard architecture to accomplish what i am trying to do.
>Thanks for the reply,