network problem: internet sharing

[Keith Antoine]

At 06:47 PM 22/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Just a thought, but could this issue be a hardware issue?
>
>Is the cable a new one or an old one? Can you test or replace the network 
>cards with a spare?
>
>A while back I had a Linux firewall go wonky on me and I spent a lot of 
>time troubleshooting because it was an intermittent problem with connectivity.
>
>Turns out one of the Nics was dying a slow death. It could be a card in 
>either box.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Wil McGilvery
>Manager
>Lynch Digital Media Inc

Its acedemic now that i bought a router. However cables are brand new had a 
tested
replacement card it worked with neither. The nics in the master machine are 
MB built in
ASUS  A7N8X delux both working just fine. Can say this with confidence as 
they are fine
with the router. It was the downstairs XP that was the problem and yes I 
did have another
that i installed last year for a Pro photographer the did the same thing. I 
along with others
spent 4 weeks trying only to give up and buy a router. So there are shared 
internet satallite
machines that
 with windows that will not network come what may.

Skippy