David,

You have'nt mentioned, whether you are connecting through a HUB or a
SWITCH.  If there is no HUB or SWITCH and you are trying to connect
two computers directly using network cards only, you need to use a
CORSS OVER UTP cable (ususally yellow color).

Ahmad


YOU WROTE:
I am tiring to connect two computers (windows 98) together using the
network cards. I think I know what im doing and i set up both
computers
properly. I am tiring to use tcp-ip over the network but the
computers
don't recognize each other. I was wondering if there is some kind of
utility or guide i can follow to locate the problem. There seems to
be
no
way of me to know if the computers are actually sending messages over

the
network cable. I will like to know at what point am i failing. Please

help

David

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Ahmad Salman Aziz
703-266-8039

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