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Old 09-30-2003, 11:40 PM   #1
Ikik
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Pinging Error??


HI, newbie needs help here

recently this wierd pinging problem happened and i dunno what triggered it or how to solve it :---

when i try to ping an ip e.g

"ping localhost"

i got this error message

"ping : sendmsg : operation not permitted "

can someone help me please ?

tia
 
Old 10-01-2003, 12:03 AM   #2
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Try having alook at your firewall rules.

Could be iptables -L or ipchains -L gotta be root
 
Old 10-01-2003, 04:06 AM   #3
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Yip, sounds like a firewall problem. If you are not up to editing the rules manually, take a look at the excellent GUI called guarddog which makes it a breeze to sort out these problems.
However, I would warn you to do a bit of reading about linux firewalling as you don't want to leave your machine vunerable whilst online.
 
  


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