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know the nics + cable all "work" because i can ping 127.0.0.1 and...
my xp machine SOMEHOW "found" the other pc. it's part of the network but not accessable for some reason. i KNOW that SOME information made it's way accross the wire as the name of the 2nd pc shows up on the first pc. i can't ping anything xcept loopback so this is strange.
i don't know what's wrong exactly, i have the same network number but different host numbers [192.168.0.1] and [192.168.0.2] ... i also tried .4 and .8 though there was no difference.
i am now thinking problem at the "upper layers" as cisco has helped me to test my network from the bottom up to find errors.
I know that you've probably already thought of this... but