On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:28:42PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:30:28 -0600, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or > >out.
> When you refer to 'self ping', is that "ping localhost" "ping > <hostname>" or "ping 208.251.253.83"? That might give someone a clue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ping 208.251.253.83 PING 208.251.253.83 (208.251.253.83): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 208.251.253.83: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms 64 bytes from 208.251.253.83: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms 64 bytes from 208.251.253.83: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms 64 bytes from 208.251.253.83: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms --- 208.251.253.83 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.2 ms but pings sent anywhere else are dropped... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ping 208.33.90.85 PING 208.33.90.85 (208.33.90.85): 56 data bytes --- 208.33.90.85 ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My only real suggestion is to "whack it back to where it works." That > is, lose all the ipchains/NAT/firewall stuff and just go with > /etc/network/interfaces, and appropriate NIC driver. If that doesn't > work, at least the area of investigation is much smaller. If it does, > then add your other stuff one de-bug-able line or stanza at a time. had this problem even before "apt-get install ipmasq" but to be certain, i "apt-get --purge remove ipmasq" and then "reboot" and still no luck. > Not much, but it's all I've got. i appreciate the effort! we'll nail this reall soon now, i hope... -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #92 from Martin F. Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Would you like to use SHUTDOWN AS NORMAL USER? Install appropriate entries into /etc/sudoers (assuming that 'sudo' is installed: User_Alias SHUTDOWNERS = <comma-separated list of users, or 'ALL'> Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot SHUTDOWNERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...