Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> I have a small mystery on my home network. ... >> The CentOS-6.2 machine does not get any response to pings >> from the modem, but is able to ping sites beyond the modem. >> >> Could some knowledgeable soul suggest a reason for this? > > Are you sure the problem is with the CentOS machine and not the router > itself? ... > OTOH, if CentOS still doesn't work, then it's most probably the firewall > --- either the CentOS firewall or the router firewall. Check them both for > dropping ICMP packets. > > I cannot think of any other problem. Can CentOS ping other machines on > your LAN? Thanks for all the responses. I have to confess that my error was probably at kindergarten level ... The modem is at 192.168.1.254 , while my LAN is 192.168.2.0 , which the computer accesses through eth1 . I found (from "route") that this computer was trying to send packets for the modem through eth0, to which nothing was connected. After I ran [tim@grover ~]$ sudo ifconfig eth0 down I was able to access the modem. I looked at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and I saw that "ONBOOT=yes" was set. (I had copied this from my working server.) I sort of thought that this would not be activated unless something was connected to the ethernet socket ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
