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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