J. Taylor Childers writes: > Comp 1 Comp 2 > IP: 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 > NETMASK: 255.255.0.0 255.255.0.0 > GATEWAY: 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.1 The computers won't be talking through the gateway, as they are on the same subnet. If the "router" is a typical home broadband router like you'd buy at CompUSA, then check to see if it has some sort of firewall enabled. If you connect the two computers to a normal switch, they shouldn't have any problems seeing each other. Also, make sure neither of the computers have a firewall enabled. It sounds like "Comp 2" could have a firewall that blocks pings. -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list