[ale] home networking difficulties

[Andrew Grimmke]

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 15:52, Joseph A. Knapka wrote:
> Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> 
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> > > 
> > >You machine is not responding to the ping request.
> > >It's either a routing issue, or you've got a firewall
> > >running on your Redhat box blocking.  What are the ip
> > >addresses for the two boxes you're trying to ping
> > >to/from?  Look to see if you
> > >have /etc/sysconfig/ipchains file.
> > 
> > I know it has taken a while, but I have been trying to
> > figure this out and doing some research on my own.
> > 
> > the linux box router/firewall is 192.168.1.1
> > the windows box is 192.168.1.2
> > 
> > IPchains is running, but I have set a rule to allow
> > traffic from the 192.168.1.X subnet.
> > 
> 
> Does it work if you totally disable ipchains? (Just
> flush all the rules - ipchains -F <chain>, for
> each chain, IIRC.)

Well, 

I flushed the rules (ipchains -F).  Then I listed the rules to make sure
I did it right (ipchains -L).  All that was lest was the default
policies:
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):  
Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):  
Chain output (policy ACCEPT):  

then I ping the other machine and nothing.

could it be routing?  the routing table looked pretty straightforward. 
I didn't see anything that looked wrong.


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe
>   "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
>    sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
>    the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me
> 



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