you have to make sure you have your firewall set to accept ICMP traffic. to have ipchains handle ICMP traffic you must use something like:
ipchains -A input -p ICMP -j ACCEPT David [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:10:40PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > I can only half-ping the outside world through my firewall. That is, my > firewall will forward ping requests, but it won't forward the replies > (although iptraf reports that it is getting them). > > I can also ping the firewall from the workstations, and the workstations from > the firewall. > > I have ipchains -P forward ACCEPT. > > What am I doing wrong? > > -- > Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. > > "Real hackers mostly think crackers are lazy, irresponsible, and not very > bright, and object that being able to break security doesn't make you a > hacker any more than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive > engineer." > -- The Hacker HOWTO > > Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > See the mail headers for GPG/advertising/homepage information.
