Direct Connection with Crossover cable

23 Dec 2006 5:32 PM

glidingpiper

Hello,

Am currently having an issue with a direct connection I'm trying to achieve-
I'm using

-an RJ45 crossover cable
-2 laptops with XP SP2

I've manually configured laptop 1's IP as 192.168.0.1 and 2's to be
192.168.0.2. Subnet masks are 255.255.255.0. Firewalls are turned off. One
laptop can happily ping the other, but not the other way around! Am
attempting to set up a long-awaited 2 player game of Civ 3 but to no avail.
Any help greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,

23 Dec 2006 6:40 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

In news:12CFF544-726E-4994-815C-40B5AE598143@microsoft.com,

glidingpiper <glidingpi***@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
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> Hello,
>
> Am currently having an issue with a direct connection I'm trying to
> achieve- I'm using
>
> -an RJ45 crossover cable
> -2 laptops with XP SP2
>
> I've manually configured laptop 1's IP as 192.168.0.1 and 2's to be
> 192.168.0.2. Subnet masks are 255.255.255.0. Firewalls are turned
> off. One laptop can happily ping the other, but not the other way
> around! Am attempting to set up a long-awaited 2 player game of Civ
> 3 but to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated!
>
> Kind regards,

I'm presuming you're trying to ping by IP address. Any third party firewall
software? This really does sound like a firewall issue, honestly.