Did that already over the weekend and also today. 
I try the pings when I've stopped SuSEfirewall2 and it behaves the same.
I rejected everything that has to do with quick mode. There were two 
options, the first one regarding the overall firewall and one to 
particular services. I said no to all of them.
However, there is something strange I noticed today.
When I plug in a cable into the offending NIC, I notice that the LEDs 
showing n/w connectivity go on on the card side but on the router eth 
port the LED indicating link is off!!!
Tried it with a straight through, crossover and also a rollover(don't 
laugh at this last one, I am trying everything to be sure) and it still 
behaves the same. 
When I reboot the machine, the LED on the router then goes on but on 
pinging, I still get the same response.
Seeing this I put a switch in between the two. The switch sees both the 
router and the NIC fine but on ping, this time I got no response 
instead of the other network unreachable error. In this state, I 
accidentally left the ping command running and went to check out on 
someone and the router replied to only two pings out of 1002 ping(don't 
ask me the percentage it calculated. Its embarrasing), but that is the 
situation right now.

> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 04:43, Lule George William wrote:
> <snip>
> > SuSEfirewall2 a million times but still no luck. I have disabled 
ipv6,
> <snip>
> 
> two hints:
>       1. what's the behaviour BEFORE you configured SuSEfirewall2 i.e 
do a
>       SuSEfirewall2 stop; ping $troublesome_ip_here
> 
>       2. You did read the section under FW_QUICKMODE (or something 
along those
>        lines) didn't you?
> 
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Lule George William (Mr)
Network and Systems Administrator
Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi
P.O. Box 5498 Kampala
Uganda


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