[clug] Networking problem
Stephen Jenkin
sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Sun May 2 00:54:04 GMT 2004
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Prometheus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with my home network. I have one gentoo box and a
> windows box, and I have been pinging each machine to make sure the
> network is ok. The windows box can ping the gentoo box, but the gentoo
> box can't ping the windows box. I have added the ip address of the
> windows box to the /etc/hosts file of the gentoo box, but still getting
> no where. Any ideas?
Perhaps the windows box receives the ping and doesn't know how to route it
back. 'netstat -rn' will show you routes. 'ipconfig' will show
interfaces.
The linux box is probably OK - it receives & returns pings on the right
interace. Check its routing though, do the pings really go out??
Easy troubleshooting - look at the 'activity' lights on your ethernet
switch or on the NIC's in the boxes.
There was another suggestion that there could a windows firewall. Yep -
that's a very good suggestion. Check the lights :-)
HTH
sj
>
> ange
>
Steve Jenkin, Unix Sys Admin
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PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
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