XP-Linux PC-PC connection

**Amaru** · 12-21-2005

when i ping the xp from linux heres what i get
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1 icmp_seq=1 ttl_1 time
etc...

when i ping linux from xp heres what i get
Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes

why 64bytes from linux and 32bytes from xp?
a friend told me that it might be loopback error. has anyone experinced this?

**kern** · 12-21-2005

its just a different ICMP packet size it uses, nothing is wrong

mine does the same, if you want to choose the size of the packet

from 'man ping'

Code:

  -s packetsize
              Specifies the number of data bytes to be sent.  The  default  is  56,  which
              translates  into  64  ICMP data bytes when combined with the 8 bytes of ICMP header data.

**Amaru** · 12-21-2005

if I changed it to lets say 32 will i be able to ping the xp from linux and vice versa?

**kern** · 12-21-2005

oh, you can't ping from linux? strange

yet you can ping from windows?

no, changing the packet size wont make a difference in that area, there must be a problem with your networking.

are you sure the networking on the slackware box is configured properly?

**Amaru** · 12-21-2005

I cant ping linux from Xp and I cant ping XP from linux

**deltaflyer** · 12-21-2005

could be a firewall thing,try opening port on firewalls, i had to do that to get my kids xp boxes to see my suse box, worth a try

andy

**Amaru** · 12-21-2005

i turned off the firewall inmy xp,still nothing happens

**Nephroth** · 12-22-2005

I had a similar problem just recently when connecting two machines between eachother. I think there may be something in windows SP2 that interferes with ICMP requests, or at least those from Linux machines but I have nothing other than a single occurance to back that up. Anybody else have any ideas?

**kern** · 12-23-2005

maybe its the SP2 firewall. disable it and try again

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