Re: Networking Problem

From: Scott (spiscitelli_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/28/04

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    John Salvo <noone@noone.org> wrote in message news:<c45c2e$c2l$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>...
    > 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.

    Nevermind on this...boy do I feel pretty stupid. It helps when you
    are pinging the right address. I was pinging 192.168.0.3 from the
    other computers. The actual address the lx box got was 192.168.0.103.
     That would explain it!

    Thanks anyway.

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