Identity Crisis
I had been trying to connect my laptop to my home pc using a cross cable for so many days. Finally yesterday i decided to get it done no matter what. The problem was that despite all proper TCP/IP settings the two computers were not able to ping each other. I cleared my ARP cache, reinstalled the cards, changed subnets and IP addresses but to no avail. The green light was flashing on both cards and yet somehow they could not ping each other.
Well after going through all the settings again and again and again, it finally hit me, both comps were named 'Sijin' , that might be causing the problem. So i renamed my home pc and after a reboot i had two way pinging wooooooot!!! :D :D
Moral of the day : Give your babies seperate names.