Sanborn, John wrote:
>
> What problems are you having?  Ping is usually a trouble shooting util., so
> I'm guessing there's something wrong.
>
> What O/S?
>
> Did the network install ok?  Machine B is replying to the ping, so I'm guess
> it did, but maybe the ping.exe file was corrupted.
>
> More details will help to chase this down.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Would anyone know the meaning of the following error that occurs when
> > attempting to ping between two Win95 machines with tcp/ip
> > installed and
> > static ip's assigned:
> >
> > "ping: transmit failed, error code 12"
> >
> > Machine A will ping machine B successfully using either the IP address or
> > the host name; machine B will ping neither itself nor machine A using
> > either method.
>
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Swap the network cards. If the ping transmit fails in the other
direction, replace the network card.

Rick Sauer

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