Re: tcp/ip over usb
From: Adam Dyba [MSFT] (adyba_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/21/04
- Next message: Frank: "PPC 2005: are there any POOM or MAPI changes?"
- Previous message: Adam Dyba [MSFT]: "Re: How to programmatically create/edit a Connection Manager entry"
- In reply to: vivian: "tcp/ip over usb"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:51:31 -0700
The desktop pass-through connection doesn't handle ICMP packets, hence all
requests to ping hosts across it will fail. However, TCP and UDP packets are
handled - ex. try connecting your client app to your server running on your
PC over TCP using PC's IP addr as destination.
Adam Dyba
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft Corp.
_____________________________________________________________
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"vivian" <v_crompton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41493a07$1@duster.adelaide.on.net...
> I am writing a cross platform game for pocket PCs/windows desktops, using
> TCP/IP for communications.
> Unfortunately, while it all works fine on desktop machines, I am unable to
> get TCP/IP fully working over the USB cable.
>
> I can surf the web using explorer on the pocket PC, with Activesync
> passthrough turned on, but I can not ping the desktop machine that the
> pocket PC is connected to, nor can I see a web server on my local network
by
> IP address such as 192.168.0.1:4000 where the seb server (actually a perl
> httpd) would be running on port 4000.
> According to vxUtil, the IP address of the pocket PC is 192.168.55.101 and
> it's gateway ( activesync?) is 192.168.55.100.
>
> The pocket PC can ping it's own address, but not the gateway address, nor
> the real IP address of the PC it is connected to (192.168.0.3) I can not
> find any settings somewhere to somehow bridge or route the 192.168.55.x
> traffic, and at any rate, I can't even seem to ping the 192.168.55.100 end
> either from the pocket PC or the desktop machine.
>
> Please help!
> Basically I just need TCP/IP working over USB so I can connect to a server
> on the desktop machine from the pocket PC.
>
>
>
>
>
- Next message: Frank: "PPC 2005: are there any POOM or MAPI changes?"
- Previous message: Adam Dyba [MSFT]: "Re: How to programmatically create/edit a Connection Manager entry"
- In reply to: vivian: "tcp/ip over usb"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
