Gosh how I love windows. Turned XP's firewall off and bingo, the two start talking. So I turned the firewall back on again, and they're still quite happy to carry on speaking to each other. But...

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ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:d0:88:4E:EC
inet addr:10.0.0.5 BCast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX Packets:107...

The output is as follows, (and I get a sneaky suspicion some of it shouldn't look like this...)

Destination - Gateway - Genmask - Flags - Metric- Ref - Use Iface
169.254.0.0- * ...

As far as I can tell, I've enabled all internal traffic on XP's firewall. It won't let me (or, quite possibly I can't figure out) turn off the firewall for individual network connections, but I can...

It is a working crossover cable; I've made double sure of that.

Hi,

I'm running RH9 on a Dell Latitude LS400, trying to connect to my WinXP desktop. I've set up the eth0 connection on the laptop (no problems setting up, device recognised and activates without...