On 17 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more experimentation I seem to have got ping to work in both directions, by means of the following:
1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. 2. I removed (instead of just stopping) shorewall and also bastille on both machines. I can now ping in both directions, using the above IP address for the laptop. I don't fully understand what is happening but at least it seems to be working so far. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/Debian || blog, book reviews, electronic Microsoft-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]