My colleague has been trying to network two machines together for the past two days in order to enable the customer to use internet connection sharing. The machines are both running XP home edition and are 'branded'. The user wants to use AOL (why is anyone's guess) and has checked with AOL that the version they have signed up for (Silver) allows multiple IPs.
The problem is that they just won't see each other at all! My colleague has set and configured a variety of networks but just cannot get this one to work. Each machine responds to pinging but when you go to cmd and type in ipconfig/all, the following information is displayed as the ip:
ip address: FE80:204:61FFFE6C:F6E%7
dns: FEC0:0:0:FFF:1%4
I have never seen anything like this before and niether has my colleague...
Any ideas? We have ever tried new LAN cards and cable but I feel that it software based rather than hardware and it didn't work anyway....
Any help would be much appreciated..... AOL insist that it is possible with the silver version..
Kesser
The problem is that they just won't see each other at all! My colleague has set and configured a variety of networks but just cannot get this one to work. Each machine responds to pinging but when you go to cmd and type in ipconfig/all, the following information is displayed as the ip:
ip address: FE80:204:61FFFE6C:F6E%7
dns: FEC0:0:0:FFF:1%4
I have never seen anything like this before and niether has my colleague...
Any ideas? We have ever tried new LAN cards and cable but I feel that it software based rather than hardware and it didn't work anyway....
Any help would be much appreciated..... AOL insist that it is possible with the silver version..
Kesser