You probably chose a firewall setting which disables ping, i.e., icmp requests
are dropped silently by iptables filtering.

For more info, see /etc/Bastille/*

HTH,
Vijay

prontomail writes:
 > Could someone please tell the best "How-To" resource available for Linux on
 > the net?
 > 
 > In the meantime, why is it that I can't ping my new Mandrake installation. I
 > know connectivity is there because I access the web from this box through my
 > MSWindows-hosted internet sharing. I just need a way to prove that I can
 > "talk" to/from this box from/to other boxes on the network. This is the
 > first Linux box on the network.
 > 
 > Thanks for the help


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