Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> (1) I can open port 22 on the Billion, allowing me to ssh in from
>> outside. But for some reason I cannot ping the same address from outside.
> This is due to modem refuses to answer to pings. You might have option
> to allow it in modem config.
>
> Ping (ICMP) does not use ports but it is packet of type 8.
Thanks again for your response.
Could CentOS be preventing me from pinging the system?
> When you turn off firewall, it stops routing packets so they can not be
> passed to systems behind it.
>
> Only option I can think of is to use shorewall as firewall and add
> NAT/Masquerade and the rest of the rules to routestoped confgi file:
I was using Shorewall before I went over to CentOS-6,
and will probably go over to it.
But I don't really need to disable the firewall on the server.
I just thought I'd try it as an experiment.
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