[ale] home networking difficulties

[Geoffrey]

Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 22:05, Adrin wrote:

> can ping both IP internally, but not from the windows box.
> 
> 
>>	If no then you don't have IP forwarding on or a rule is set
>>to drop the pings.
>>      Check this file for a "1" in it
>>/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> 
> All the files in /proc appear to be empty.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you shouldn't need forwarding turned on to 
ping the machine.  Granted, you will need it eventually as the linux box 
is the gateway for the win box, but it's a non-issue at this point.

> 
> 
>>Another good testing measure is to let your fire wall down
>>and test. if you get results with it down then you need to
>>rconfig the linux box.

I believe he's already done this.


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