Re: Networking Problem
From: John Salvo (noone_at_noone.org)
Date: 03/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:08:13 +1000
Scott wrote:
> I just installed a redhat 9.0 computer on my home network. The
> network consists of 4 other computer that run Microsoft OS's and a
> Dlink router that serves as a DHCP server for all machines. The
> redhat install went fine, and I am able to connect to the internet
> without a hitch from my redhat box. It is successfully getting an IP
> from my DLINK router. I am also able to use the built in samba (very
> cool!) to see my MS computers. However, I cannot ping the redhat box
> from any other computer on my network. I try to ping it by IP address
> and get request timed out. When I am on the redhat box, I can ping
> 127.0.0.1 just fine, and like I said I can get out to the internet,
> but if I try to ping the redhat box's own IP address from a terminal
> on the box, I get destination host unreachable. Is there something
> built in to RH9 that would refuse ping requests? If so how can I
> change it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
By default with Fedora ( so maybe as well with RH 9.0 ), incoming ICMP
requests are rejected, with exception of ICMP type 255.
So ICMP echo requests type 8 are also rejected.
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