I'm having alot of trouble getting a Java app on a WindowsXP box to
talk to a Java app on a RedHat Linux 9.0 box. It seems like it should
be trivial but it's not working. My RedHat Linux box has 3 NIC cards in
it, as does my WinXP box. I am attempting to hook 2 of the NIC cards
together with a cross-over ethernet cable and open up a Socket between
them. WinXP see the NIC card as being connected, but I cannot get the
Linux box to establish a Socket with the server. I've put a couple of
code snippets below just in case anyone sees anything obvious.

I have the server running on WinXP:

        try {
            ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(6969, 0,
InetAddress.getByName("192.168.69.1"));

            System.out.println("listening on ip address " +
serverSocket.getLocalSocketAddress().toString() + " port " +
serverSocket.getLocalPort());

            Socket client = serverSocket.accept();

            System.out.println("Connected: " +
client.getInetAddress().toString());
        }
        catch(final SocketException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch(final IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

And the client running on Linux under X windows:

        try {
            Socket socket = new Socket();

            socket.bind(new
InetSocketAddress(InetAddress.getByName("192.168.101.1"), 6969));

            System.out.println("bound to " + socket.getLocalSocketAddress());
            System.out.println("bound = " + socket.isBound());

            socket.connect(new
InetSocketAddress(InetAddress.getByName("192.168.69.1"), 6969), 1000);

            System.out.println("Connected: " + socket.isConnected());

        }
        catch(final SocketException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch(final UnknownHostException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch(final IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }