ftp & ping

[Jing Su]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Chris Aitken wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:56:20 -0400
> From: Chris Aitken <aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: [TLUG]: ftp & ping
>
> I want to transfer files from my debian system to my redhat system. I
> can ping the debian PC (192.168.0.2) from the redhat PC (192.168.0.1)
> but not vice versa.
>
> Of course when I try to ftp into the deb system from the redhat one the
> connection is refused.
>
> Also ftp works on the redhat system but not on the deb system (it seems
> to only have sftp).
>
> I'm not sure what my next step should be...

RedHat has a built-in firewall on by default, which I believe responds to
Pings as destination unreachable.

as root, try:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status

and if it's running, try:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop

See if doing that helps...

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