On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Alon Barzilai wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old RH9 box that suddenly stopped responding to pings( there > might be a restart in the process, but I am not sure) > > I cannot also ping out from the machine to other on the same network, > but surprisingly I can ping outside. > > > I suspceted the iptables are involved in the process. > I never used/configured iptabels on that machine > when I issued "ifup eth0" I got messages saying "ip tabels (c) Netfilter > core team" > so I removed the iptables packages, but that did not help. > > when I try to ping into the same network I get > (<box IP address) "destination is unreachable" > > I can ping the gateway and to the machine itself. > > kernel is 2.4.20-31.9 from rh. > > could it be that iptables left something on the machine?
Use a sniffer, such as tcpdump. It gets a copy of the packets before iptables gets a chance to filter them out. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
