Re: [gentoo-user] ssh2 and xover LAN

[Matt Richards <matt@mattstone.net>]

yea sounds like it, however, ping uses ICMP and file transfer 
applications normally use TCP
i have had one case where a computer could ping stuff but nothing else 
because the tcp stacked was messed up and only icmp was working...
was a winXP box tho lol ..... !

Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> He said it could ping... I dunno... seems he just needs to figure out 
> how he wants to transfer files.
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Matt Richards wrote:
>
>> Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>>>  What do you mean by xover? FTP? SCP? NFS? Coda? HTTP?
>> I guess by xover they mean as in 2 NIC's one cable cross wired!
>>
>> Matt.
>>>
>>>  On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, maxim wexler wrote:
>>>
>>> >  Hi everybody,
>>> > >  Anybody got this working between two PCs and can tell
>>> >  me how to edit the conf files?
>>> > >  The NICs are found, the modules are loaded, the net is
>>> >  up and both PCs can ping each other. But transferring
>>> >  files fails.
>>> > >  FWIW tcpdump indicates the two PCs are aware of each
>>> >  other.
>>> > >  ssh2 is probably overkill since security is not an
>>> >  issue but ftp didn't work either.
>>> > >  -Maxim
>>> >
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