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You do know that fedora 7 has been unsupported for almost a year now ( End of Life was June 2008 ) , and that fedora 10 is the current and fedora 11 will be out in about 1 month
Hi to billymayday,
Thanks for giving the link to iptables which has command lines for ping.
A friend of mine told me to try "/sbin/iptables -F" which will do clean up.
But I am hesitate to do taht - because I really don't know what I am doing.
Philip
Hi to John VV,
Thank you for reminding me that Fedora 7 is out of date.
I am just playing with it. Can I update the system to Fedora 10 on-line
and do it automatacally?
Thank you for reminding me that Fedora 7 is out of date.
I am just playing with it. Can I update the system to Fedora 10 on-line
and do it automatacally?
7 to 10 or 11 . The answer is no to an update .Do a fresh install of fedora 10 or 11 ( in a month)
there are WAY to many changes in fedora 8, 9 and 10 for that to work reasonably well . It might but i would put it at 95% chance of a fubar'ed computer .
Doing a fresh install is also the recommended method
Hi to billymayday,
Thanks for giving the link to iptables which has command lines for ping.
A friend of mine told me to try "/sbin/iptables -F" which will do clean up.
But I am hesitate to do taht - because I really don't know what I am doing.
Philip
Hi to John VV,
Thank you for reminding me that Fedora 7 is out of date.
I am just playing with it. Can I update the system to Fedora 10 on-line
and do it automatacally?
Philip
flushing iptables just clears the rules. Do you really want a firewall-less system?
Since you guys are really nice, I want to ask more questions:
To John VV:
I buy Linux CDs to save me some time. Because I am sure I can use the CD to start the installation process. However, the LQ download is too complicated because there are so many choices to make: torrent, live.iso, DVD.iso, ...
What is "torrent" means? What Do I need for?
What is "live.iso"? If I just want to install a plan Linux server, can I use live.iso to install? Sorry for these basic questions.
Philip
To billymayday:
At this time I really don't care about firewall. My goal is to later integrate some wiki software with my web documents. I need other machines to be able to maccess this experimental Fedora server.
I did flushing yesterday and still cannot ping.
I also follow the following recommendation (from your link) and still cannot ping:
SERVER_IP="192.168.122.1"
iptables -A INOUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -s 0/0 -d $SERVER_IP -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp 0 -s $SERVER_IP -d 0/0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
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