[ale] network problems

Ken Nagorski kenn at pcintelligent.com
Mon Jun 4 16:01:06 EDT 2001


Hi there,

	I found the problem. Box one had an IP address that box two was
using. It was a sloppy apache move someone did. I did look at that but
missed the first time. Thank you for all the suggestions.

Ken!

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Scott Nolde wrote:

> Do you have icmp_echo_ignore_all turned on?
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
> 
> If it were just ignoring icmp, this may be it.
> 
> - Scott
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > 	OK. I have two redhat servers. we will call them one and two.on
> > box one you can ping box two on box two you can't see box one... I can't
> > figure it out. It's plugged into a Flowpoint 2200 router/DSL but we
> > removed it from there and plugged just the two computers into a hub. We
> > had the same problem
> >
> > 	It can't see anything wrong from the routing tables. A hub is not
> > capable of dropping ICMP packets... I am not sure what is up? Below are
> > the routing tables. Maybe someone can suggest somehting for me to take a
> > look at.
> >
> > box one --------------------------------------------
> > [root at ns /root]# route -n
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface
> > 64.81.221.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.224 U     0      0        0
> > eth0
> > 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> > 0.0.0.0         64.81.221.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> > eth0
> > box two -------------------------------------------
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
> > Iface
> > 64.81.221.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.224 U     0      0        0
> > eth0
> > 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> > 0.0.0.0         64.81.221.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
> > eth0
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ken
> >
> >
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