You obvoiusly have to add each machine's IP address to the other mashine's /etc/host.allow file. You can either do this by simply typing the IP address, or as foolws: ALL:192.168.0.x where 'x' is the other machines number on the subnet. --Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm having a problem connecting two machines: one > running Mandrake 7.1 and one running 6.1. The machine > running 7.1 has Roadrunner on eth0 with the IP > assigned by DHCP and this works fine. I put a second > NIC car in this machine (DFE-530TX+) and it seem to be > working per IF config info: > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr > 00:50:BA:40:57:43 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 > Metric:1 > RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > frame:0 > TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:18 Base address:0xd800 > > I gave the card in the machine running 6.1 the address > 192.168.0.2. I set 192.168.0.1 machine as the > gateway. The problem is I can't Ping the other > machine. I can ping the the machines locally i.e. > 192.168.0.1 can be pinged from 192.168.0.1. When I > try to Ping 192.168.0.1 from 192.168.0.2. Nothing > happens. When I ctrl C I get a message that all > packets were lost. The same thing happens in reverse. > I did happen to look in /var/log/messgaes in the > machine that was pinged and found the following: > > > Sep 12 18:37:09 cm-24-161-17-97 kernel: Packet log: > input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 192.168.0.2:8 192.168.0.1:0 > L=84 S=0x00 I=34 F=0x0000 T=64 (#30) > > This appears in both machines log files for every > packet sent. It appears there is some sort of > security setting that is dropping the packets? I just > can't figure out where. > > Both machines have IP chains and PM firewall installed > since both at one time or another have had internet > access. The one currently with internet access has PM > firewall running on eth0. On the other machine I ran > "PM Firewall stop". > > Any help much appreciated. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > ______________________________________________________________________________ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
