[P1] Networking, step by step

[J.C. Webber III]

JMteacher at aol.com wrote:
> Yes, I'm sure you're right.  Have tried everything except for the
> last.  Don't know where to find terminal window.  I'm able to connect
> wirelessly to web with iBook which is the most important thing to me
> so I can just switch the usb cable.  I have panther on both machines. 
> I really appreciate all of your suggestions.  Thank you so much.


The terminal app is located in your Utilities folder.  It's for
unix command line stuff.  If you don't know how to use it, it's
probably better that you leave it alone.  It's pretty low-level
stuff down there, ones and zeros and whatnot.  8^)

But if you're willing to be adventurous, follow along:

Applications/Utilities/Terminal (double click on Terminal)

A new window pops up with a prompt that looks something like:
flicka:~jcw $		(flicka is my machine's name and my login is jcw)

The prompt is waiting for you to type in some command.  Try this one:
/sbin/ping -c2 192.168.1.2	(from the machine who's address is 
				  192.168.1.3)

or

/sbin/ping -c2 192.168.1.3	(from the machine who's address is
				  192.168.1.2)

You are asking one machine to say 'hello' to the other machine.
It's a way of testing network connectivity between the two machines.
Without network connectivity, there's no hope of sharing a printer.

The 'ping' command is kind of like what a submarine does to see what's
out there.  The '-c2' option says, 'say hello twice' (count=2).

The response you get should look something like this:

jcw at flicka:~ #56> /sbin/ping -c2 192.168.1.134
PING 192.168.1.134 (192.168.1.134): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.134: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=14.664 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.134: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.897 ms

--- 192.168.1.134 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.897/7.78/14.664 ms


If there is no answer, it will look like this (and it will take a while
to finish):

jcw at flicka:~ #57> /sbin/ping -c2 192.168.2.24  (there's no such address on my net)
PING 192.168.2.24 (192.168.2.24): 56 data bytes

--- 192.168.2.24 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss



Wasn't that fun 8^).

Let me know how your tests go.

Later....
-- 
J.C. Webber III       
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