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I installed centos 5 x86_64 with xen in order to create multiple guests. The install of both the host and first guest went smoothly. The first guest is running Fedora 8 x86 as a fully virtualized guest (not paravirtualized).
I can access the internet from the guest and can successfully ping from the host to the guest and from the guest to the host. I can also ping from another computer running on the network to the host. I cannot, however, ping from another computer to the guest.
I have tried a crossover cable to rule out gateway/firewall issues but get the same results. I have also tried googling this issue but could find nothing that directly addresses this issue.
How can I ping my xen guests from another computer on the network?
Might be worth checking that the firewall on the host is not inadvertedly protecting/blocking all communication to the guest. As it's clear you can establish communication to the outside world I would just double check iptables on the host.
Thanks for your response. It turns out there were two problems; both of which needed to be fixed to get the correct ping response. The first was with my router. I had to tell it to redirect the guest IP to the host IP. After I fixed that, I got a response that said "Destination port unreachable". The second is as you suggested. On the host I ran "iptables -F" and then got the proper ping response. Now I have to figure out how to make the iptable change permanent...
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