ping

[Chris Aitken]

Daniel Son wrote:
> Chris,
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> Are you able to ping computer1 from computer2 or computer3?
> do you ping computer1 by IP address or by name, and if by name does 
> the name resolve properly?
> what does iptables -L say?
I'm okay now. My eth0:1 (LAN) was just Deactivated. I guess all other 
pinging worked because eth0 was still Activated.

BTW, here's the output of iptables -L
Anything in there I should be concerned about (having never used that 
command)?

[root at p733 chris]# /sbin/iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere           

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with 
icmp-host-prohibited

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination        

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination        
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere           
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp any
ACCEPT     esp  --  anywhere             anywhere           
ACCEPT     ah   --  anywhere             anywhere           
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             224.0.0.251         udp dpt:mdns
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state 
RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            state NEW 
tcp dpt:ssh
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            reject-with 
icmp-host-prohibited

Chris

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> Chris Aitken wrote:
>> I am trying to set up a fourth computer to print to a remote printer. 
>> I guess I know how to do this now, but I can't ping computer1 from 
>> computer4.
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>> The hosts.allow file (computer1) looks fine.
>>
>> # hosts.allow   This file describes the names of the hosts which are
>> #               allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
>> #               by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
>> all : allow : all
>>
>> The hosts.deny file has no entries.
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>> What can I try next?
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>> Computer4 is on the Internet (through router>cable modem) and can 
>> ping the other two computers and the router. It just can't ping 
>> computer1 (which has the printer connected to it).
>>
>> Chris
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