>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.
Louis> How do I check it there is a firewall installed ? I know how to check this via the graphical display. This server does have X installed (which I did last week), but is not exporting the display remotely to me yet via VNC. I plan to get this fixed soon. I have numerous posts on this in SLUG. Right now I can only do remote things via ssh. However I am only interested to download these patches for my server from that site so that I can install it and move on to other things (like fixing X so that I can use vnc to connect to the server). But right now it appears I won't be able to do that until ICMP is enabled again by the Network staff. Right ?? Cheers Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
