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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.
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
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