On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 19:17, Tony Green wrote: > I doubt that this means there is a network problem. If you can reach > the machine via ftp but not ping it, I'd say that they have ICMP > filtering turned on. >
If you're not using a firewall (or you want to ignore pings from your local network), 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all' will do the trick. To turn it back on, simply 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all' -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
