Connecting 2 linux boxes directly

Hello,
- I had tried to conenct 2 Linux boxes directly.
I did it with a cross cable connecting directly
one nic to the other nic.
(also tried all my tests with non-cross cable,
but AFAIK it should be with cross cable).

For this I set the address of one of them to
192.168.0.2
subnet: 255.255.255.0

the other is
192.168.0.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0


Now I can't ping from 192.168.0.2
to 192.168.0.1.

I tried to remove the GW declaration from
192.168.0.2 (the gw was 192.168.0.254 , and
in this connection both of them were not conneced to
192.168.0.254).
I also tried, on 192.168.0.2 ,to set the gw to itself,
namely 192.168.0.2 but it did not help.

can it be that the gw definition on 192.168.0.1
(which is also 192.168.0.254) is an obstacle ?


what is the way to do it ?

any help will be appreciate.

regards,
sting

Sting <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> - I had tried to conenct 2 Linux boxes directly.
> I did it with a cross cable connecting directly
> one nic to the other nic.
> (also tried all my tests with non-cross cable,
> but AFAIK it should be with cross cable).

Cross-over is correct. Did you make one or buy one? It's easy to
make a mistake when you make one; it's better to buy one.

Based on what you posted, the two hosts should have no problem with
networking. That is, ping from ether host to the other host should
work. But exact copies of ifconfig and route -n outputs would have
been better.

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