I have set up a two LAN's a remote LAN connected the the local LAN using a cisco router. The problem is i cannot ping the linux hosts on the local LAN from the remote one. But can ping windows hosts on those LAN's. what should i do to the Linux boxes to allow them to respond to ping from remote hosts? regards, lawi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html