[NTLUG:Discuss] Can't ping

[MadHat]

bobby at wrennest.com wrote:
> 
> MadHat wrote:
> >
> >
> > do you let ICMP packets through?  Can you do anything else through the
> > router?  Is it really just a router or a firewall?  ipchains is for
> > firewalling, and not specifically routing (in other owrds, it is not
> > necessary for routing).  Did you set the passthrough flag in the /proc
> > filesystem to allow packets to pass from one eth to another?
> 
> Yes. I am letting icmp through and all other web services appear to be
> working.

certain places consider this a feature, not a problem.  I know of at
least one that designed its network this way...  But that doesn't help
you.

Those answers kill my present ideas.  Let me think some more

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