Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:27:38 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpav@som.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop <-> Desktop by ethernet Message-ID: <39E30B3A.AAF9B7BF@bellsouth.net> References: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10010092138570.10813-100000@wilde.oit.umass.edu>
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Greg, I'm not much of an NFS guru, but I'll try to help you narrow this down a little: > I want to attch my laptop and desktop by ethernet. > > - Both are running -stable supped and built a couple of weeks ago. > - The desktop has an intel etherexpress pro at fxp0. I know it works > because I use it for my DHCP cable connection. > - I'm confident my hosts and exports files are OK because I have > mounted file systems of each machine on the other using lp0. > - The pccard is found and pccardd assigns ed0 to my linksys etherfast > pcmpc100. > - dhclient also worked on my laptop where I work. > - I got myself a crossover cable to connect the two machines directly, > but when I try to mount a file system from either machine on > the other I get > > NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send > First, when you plug in your crossover cable, do you get connection lights on your ethernet cards. I've seen more flukey crossover cables than you can imagine. Can you ping loopback? If not, then you need to recheck your TCP IP settings on that computer. Can the machines ping each other? These systems will both have to have some sort of valid IP address and netmask to talk to each other. The only difference between using a crossover cable and having a hub is that you can only have as many computers connected via crossover as you have ethernet cards. -- Drew Sanford lauasanf@bellsouth.net or drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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