On 05/14/2011 09:45 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > On 5/14/11 6:40 PM, JD wrote: >> On 05/14/11 18:24, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 05/14/2011 01:27 PM, JD wrote: >>>> I also brought the fedora firewall down, and retried to ping Fedora >>>> from Powerbook. No go!! >>> That means that it's not a firewall issue. Check your router config to >>> see if it's set to allow pings inside the LAN. >> Thanx! >> I checked. The gateway has a built-in feature (program) >> to let you ping any client on the lan (or any ip on the public net). >> The gateway can ping both the powerbook and the fedora pc. >> no problems there. >> The fedora pc and the powerbook can ping the gw, and a third machine >> connected to the GW by ethernet, and can of course ping addresses >> on the public net. >> They (fedora pc and powerbook) cannot ping each other! >> Powerbook firewall is set to promiscuous mode. >> And as I had stated earlier, I even stopped iptables on the >> fedora pc, which puts it also in promiscuous mode (I assume). >> Still these two machines refuse to talk. >> > Can you use traceroute to communicate between the two of them? If nothing else, traceroute should show you the route between the 2 machines. If the router's IP appears, then the packets are going through the router. Its a good backup to show that your ip routing tables are set up properly.... > James McKenzie -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
