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You should check your network setup and make sure, that both laptops are able to ping each other by the name you have set as ROS_HOSTNAME. If you have not set ROS_HOSTNAME, try setting ROS_IP to the interface adresses you are using for the networkcommunication.

You can do this by adding the following line to your .bashrc:

export ROS_IP=10.1.1.xxx

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