The fact you use a switch should not affect anything regarding your setup, and would not make your connection benefit from anything. Hubs make all computers connected share the bandwidth in use, where as switches are inteligent, and only connect the path between two computers, when needed. This is almost like an automated way to directly connect 2 computers together, on demand.
On the XP machine, can you directly ping the pulic IP of the linux box?
This has the be the quickest way to check overall issues. It might be the case, that the router, is sending all traffic out of the network, but the ISP is failing to route it back to yourself.
This would be a router setup issue on your end, and is beyond the scope of myself.
If you can, then the following should be checked.
In the eggdrop, make sure that you have the correct setting for my-ip in the config file.
In XP, make sure your client has the correct IP and hostname in it's settings. In mIRC, this can be obtained by typeing $ip and hitting the TAB key.
If one or both of these are incorrect, fix them and try again.
If connection continues to fail, you should check to see if you can connect to any other service ont he linux box.
Beyond this,t he only other thing, is to see what eggdrop say about your failed connections (to imitate the console with most flags, start eggdrop with the -n flag)Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Tue Nov 05, 2002 5:39 am
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