RE: troubleshoot net w/ crossover cable

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From: Desmond Lee (mcp_at_donotspamplease.mars)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:33:03 -0800

"Chris_J" wrote:
>
> odd, now with ipconfig/all, pc2 is showing automatic configuration is
> enabled but its also showing values of 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.0 for ip and subnet
> mask. Also, when pinging pc2 from pc2 Im receiving an unable to initialize

When the 2 machines are hooked up using a cross-over cable, the TCP/IP stack
will first attempt to contact a DHCP Server and will show the settings you
indicated initially. Failing to locate a DHCP Server will eventually cause
Windows to auto configure IP via APIPA (Automatic Private IP Adress) where IP
has the form 169.254.y.z. This allows machines in the same IP subnet to
communicate.

> windows socket interface error msg. Now I ask, how can I determine if this is
> an error/corruption w/ the winsock2 service or the card?

As above, this behavior is expected. Troubleshooting steps need to be taken
to diagnose the incident further e.g. ping machine_name, ping machine_ip, etc.

Do let us know if this helps. Thanks!

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