Re: Network Routing Problems???

From: Moe Trin (ibuprofin_at_painkiller.example.tld)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:55:17 -0500

In article <41291FE3.7070503@earthlink.net>, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote:
>I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my
>Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping, traceroute, ssh etc. the
>linux box from my freeBSD machine

So there isn't a connectivity problem

>however I am not able to ping the gateway. What could be the problem

The firewall on your FreeBSD box is blocking things. Try the newsgroup
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and get the clues from people running that
kind of firewall (Linux is using quite a different firewall). The
"mailing.freebsd.hackers" you also posted to is likely to be a mirror
of a mailing list - may not be much activity there.

>FreeBSD: Gateway, IPFW & NAT running

Yup. Review the rules you put in place on ipfw.

>31 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss

Many firewalls are configured to block ping, just to avoid this kind of
abuse. (If you don't get an answer with three pings, you are not likely
to get one from 3,000 either. But, it's your network, not mine.)

You reposted about two minutes later, with a PGP signed posting. Not
really needed, as few people are likely to care if questions like these
are signed on not.

        Old guy

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