Can not ping linux (Mandrake 10.0) server from XP machine but:
- Can ping XP from Linux system
- Can telnet (finnally) from XP machine to the Linux system

Do not have any firewall running.

Any suggestions?

can you run tcpdump on your linux system and check the traffic when you run ping from your XP system.

check your subnet masks. they should be the same on both systems.
try to ping direcly by IP-address and not by a symbolic name.
check TCP/IP filtering on the XP system: should be disabled for testing
(network adapter properties - TCP/IP - advanced - options.

quick recap. Can ping from my mandrake system but can not ping it even though I can telnet and ssh to it.

thinking this could be hw problem (although when i run win98 on this machine can ping the machine) so I am not going to worry as can telnet and ssh to the machine.

wondering though to get telnet and sshd to work had to add
ALL:192.168.2. to my hosts.allow folder.
(my internal network is 192.168.2.x)

wondering are there any special permissions needed for mandrake to reply to pings.
(and my winxp system has no problem pinging other machines)

thanks

I was installing lotus Domino server on my Ubuntu box.I had the same problem as urself. I turnoff my Firewall on the network card for the XP workstation. I received a reply.

The telnet functionality uses port 80=http traffic. Port 80 is always available.
Thanks guys you fixed my problem.