Networking :: connect 2 dsl machines

I tried to connect two machines with dsl (booted from dsl-cd), but unfortunately without success.

i configured the network with netcardconfig on both machines

Machine 1:
IP 192.168.0.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Bcast: 192.168.0.255

Machine 2:
IP 192.168.0.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Bcast: 192.168.0.255

I tried it with and without specifying a default gateway,
but I'm not even able to ping it.

I do not know a lot about network-stuff, so maybe I didn't do something
obvious, or did it the wrong way, just give me a hint please.

Regards
Morchel

How do you connect, link the machines themselves :
with a hub, a router ?

I connected them just with a crossed-over ethernet cable. That
works, because I'm able to establish an connection under windows
(on both machines runs windows currently).

what answer do you get when you type
from machine 2
ping 192.168.0.1

or from machine 1
ping 192.168.0.2

no answer

# ping 192.168.0.2
PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes

after interupting it with ctrl-c

--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
245 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

same result on machine 1

I tried it with dsl 5.0 and dsl 6.1 (although I don't think that matters).

Do I have to do something else than configuring the cards with netcardconfig?

With dsl running on one machine and XP running on the other everything I need works fine (smbtree, smbclient, http-server etc).

Any ideas?

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