Identity Crisis
I had been trying to connect my laptop to my home pc
using a cross cable for so many days. Finally yesterday i
decided to get it done no matter what. The problem was
that despite all proper TCP/IP settings the two computers
were not able to ping each other. I cleared my ARP cache,
reinstalled the cards, changed subnets and IP addresses
but to no avail. The green light was flashing on both
cards and yet somehow they could not ping each
other.
Well after going through all the settings again and again
and again, it finally hit me, both comps were named
'Sijin' , that might be causing the problem. So i renamed
my home pc and after a reboot i had two way pinging
wooooooot!!! :D :D
Moral of the day : Give your babies seperate names.