Re: cygwin-xfree: xdmcp: "no valid address"

[Mark Plowman <m dot plowman at hexapole dot com>]

> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:38:48 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
> 
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> > From: "Mark Plowman" <m.plowman@hexapole.com>
> > 
> > > The Windows 2000 has only 1 network interface and "route print"
> > > mentions therefore 2 interfaces, the Ethernet interface and the
> > > loopback interface.
> 
> The loopback interface is ok. I meant two interfaces for leaving the 
> machine (eg. 2 NIC or modem and IRDA)

I understood, it was just to be "complete". ;-)


> > > My Wife's Win 95 box also only has 1 network interface, but is not
> > > accessable here so I can't do the same "route print" to see what the
> > > system thinks.  I will try tonight.
> > >
> > > Any further thoughts welcome...
> > 
> > Does the 95 machine have DUN installed? IIRC 95 does something funny
> > with broadcast traffic only going to the "first" adapter, which is
> > defined by MAC address sort order, and DUN has (one of) a very high or
> > very low address...
> 
> What's the DUN thing?

"Dial Up Networking" - i.e. PPP and so forth...


> But maybe the version of windows95 does count. There are different 
> versions of win95. You can identify them by selecting the system tab
> from the controlcenter (don't know if they're so in english versions).
> There should be a string like 4.00.95*. What is the last character.
> Very old versions (4.00.95a) seem to have a buggy TCP driver.

Could well be, I will *again* look this evening...


> bye
> 	ago


Thanks,


Greetings

Mark