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TK-87 · 12-11-2000, 12:38 PM

Let me say up front that I'm pretty network-literate, but not so much PC-literate. I've been doing networking for many years, but PCs still have me baffled.

I upgraded the NIC in my old Win95/P100 machine from a 10Mb 3c509 to a 100Mb 3c905 and after much aggravation, I'm stuck. I loaded the applicable drivers, etc. (hopefully). TCP/IP will just not work properly.

1) I have a Win98 & Win2000 PC on my same home network as this Win95 machine.
2) All are using DHCP to successfully get their IP address from my LinkSys router
3) I use Netbeui for file sharing; TCP/IP for Internet access.
4) I can successfully file share across all 3 computers using Netbeui. And print. Everything works fine. So this tells me my network connections and hub are ok.
5) The Win95 box successfully gets a DHCP address from the LinkSys. I can release/renew just fine.
6) The ARP table in each PC gets correctly populated when I ping. A sniffer shows that ARP request/replies are working.

The problem is that I cannot ping the Win95 machine, nor can I ping from it. DHCP works; ARPs work; Netbeui works.

An interesting thing (maybe) that I see. If I start up a repeating ping to the Win95 PC from another, then boot the Win95 PC, pings will succeed for awhile while Win95 initializes! But after about the time I see the Windows Login prompt, the pings stop working.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

[Edited by TK-87 on 12-11-2000 at 02:40 PM]

12-11-2000, 12:38 PM	#1
TK-87 Member (5 bit) Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 29	Let me say up front that I'm pretty network-literate, but not so much PC-literate. I've been doing networking for many years, but PCs still have me baffled. I upgraded the NIC in my old Win95/P100 machine from a 10Mb 3c509 to a 100Mb 3c905 and after much aggravation, I'm stuck. I loaded the applicable drivers, etc. (hopefully). TCP/IP will just not work properly. 1) I have a Win98 & Win2000 PC on my same home network as this Win95 machine. 2) All are using DHCP to successfully get their IP address from my LinkSys router 3) I use Netbeui for file sharing; TCP/IP for Internet access. 4) I can successfully file share across all 3 computers using Netbeui. And print. Everything works fine. So this tells me my network connections and hub are ok. 5) The Win95 box successfully gets a DHCP address from the LinkSys. I can release/renew just fine. 6) The ARP table in each PC gets correctly populated when I ping. A sniffer shows that ARP request/replies are working. The problem is that I cannot ping the Win95 machine, nor can I ping from it. DHCP works; ARPs work; Netbeui works. An interesting thing (maybe) that I see. If I start up a repeating ping to the Win95 PC from another, then boot the Win95 PC, pings will succeed for awhile while Win95 initializes! But after about the time I see the Windows Login prompt, the pings stop working. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Tom [Edited by TK-87 on 12-11-2000 at 02:40 PM]