[ale] home networking difficulties

[Jonathan Glass]

Are these machiens connected via a hub, or connected directly?  I've
seen strange things like this when direct connecting two machines sans a
crossover cable.

Jonathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Grimmke [mailto:grimmke at directvinternet.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:49 AM
> To: Joseph A. Knapka
> Cc: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts list
> Subject: Re: [ale] home networking difficulties
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 15:52, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> > Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> > 
> > > Geoffrey wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >You machine is not responding to the ping request.
> > > >It's either a routing issue, or you've got a firewall running on 
> > > >your Redhat box blocking.  What are the ip addresses for the two 
> > > >boxes you're trying to ping to/from?  Look to see if you
> > > >have /etc/sysconfig/ipchains file.
> > > 
> > > I know it has taken a while, but I have been trying to 
> figure this 
> > > out and doing some research on my own.
> > > 
> > > the linux box router/firewall is 192.168.1.1
> > > the windows box is 192.168.1.2
> > > 
> > > IPchains is running, but I have set a rule to allow
> > > traffic from the 192.168.1.X subnet.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does it work if you totally disable ipchains? (Just
> > flush all the rules - ipchains -F <chain>, for
> > each chain, IIRC.)
> 
> Well, 
> 
> I flushed the rules (ipchains -F).  Then I listed the rules 
> to make sure I did it right (ipchains -L).  All that was lest 
> was the default
> policies:
> Chain input (policy ACCEPT):  
> Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):  
> Chain output (policy ACCEPT):  
> 
> then I ping the other machine and nothing.
> 
> could it be routing?  the routing table looked pretty 
> straightforward. 
> I didn't see anything that looked wrong.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- Joe
> >   "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
> >    sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
> >    the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me
> > 
> 
> 
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