ping!?
 

hi,

i recently installed mandrake 7.3 problem is,
it can ping me but i cannot ping it.



any ideas??


thanks
antken

What is "it" and what is "i"?. Ips, network setup etc?
--Sarin

Maybe they forgot the "o" and "u" and added an "i" and meant to say out... ping out.

If so, did you setup your network properly? How are you connected, via dialup, LAN, WAN, Cable, DSL.. T1... Details please or we can't help you.. ??

u need a network device in order to be able to ping anything different than 127.0.0.1 :)

oops
 

when i say it can ping me but i cannot ping it i mean


when i am sat at my linux box in a terminal

i type ping 192.168.0.8 and it works fine


but when i am sat at another linux box and i ping the new mandrake box ( version 8.2 ) it does not do anything and returns:
20 packets sent 100% loss

the network card is configured properly because if i browse to it using a web browser i can see the test html page that comes with mandrake, + if i start samba i can see it using a windows box but still i cannot ping it.

any ideas?

Just a quick question. Is there a firewall installed on either machine which might be filtering pings?

Yeah, if you can't ping but get webpages from the machine, most likely your firewall is blocking out ICMP requests, which are pings..

ok...
 

hi,


thanks for that
but where is the program/config file to re-jig the firewall to allow icmp packets in??

try
iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t mangle -F
and then ping. You can't still ping, mostly it won't be a firewall problem.
--Sarin

One other question, why are you wanting to ping this machine ? If your setting up services like webserver or whatever and they have no problems being accessed, what would be the point of being able to ping the machine ? Just curious.

its part of an internal system one of the servers has a admin like interface on it and it tells me the status of the servers like if they are up if the webserver is running stuff like that