[ale] home networking difficulties

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A. Knapka)]

Andrew Grimmke wrote:

> Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >You machine is not responding to the ping request.
> >It's either a routing issue, or you've got a firewall
> >running on your Redhat box blocking.  What are the ip
> >addresses for the two boxes you're trying to ping
> >to/from?  Look to see if you
> >have /etc/sysconfig/ipchains file.
> 
> I know it has taken a while, but I have been trying to
> figure this out and doing some research on my own.
> 
> the linux box router/firewall is 192.168.1.1
> the windows box is 192.168.1.2
> 
> IPchains is running, but I have set a rule to allow
> traffic from the 192.168.1.X subnet.
> 

Does it work if you totally disable ipchains? (Just
flush all the rules - ipchains -F <chain>, for
each chain, IIRC.)

Cheers,

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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