Hello all, this is an embarrasement of a problem actually ... I am not able to ping 2 machines running red hat linux 7.1 .If I install rh linux 6.2 on the same machine they work fine. I installed 7.1 with no firewall and ipchains is also flushed .. can anybody give me some pointers ? thanks in advance rgds, amit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html