How do you "ping" a box? What does it mean? Thanks in advance! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn@home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> To: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:55 PM Subject: Re: putty question > Good idea, > I tried pinging the box, and I got the same thing: > timed out > I ran ifconfig on the Linux box and all seems okay, and ifconfig also > confirmed my IP address. > Why would it time out? > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> > To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 1:44 PM > Subject: RE: putty question > > > Hi, > > Can you ping the box? What does netstat -an give on the box - for > example, I have the following: > > Active Internet connections (servers and established) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address > State > [...] > > tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN > > This is POP daemon listening on all interfaces > > [...] > > tcp 0 0 192.168.1.3:22 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN > > This is because I have set SSHD to listen on the _lan_ interface only, > as I don't trust myself with making it available on the DMZ side for > internet use. > > Do you see an entry in the table on your system refering to port 22? > > Thanks. > Andrew. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
