See, it's like this. We have a wireless access point/router which we use to accommodate some of the laptops that has a wireless network card. This wireless router is connected to the switch where all of our workstation and servers are connected.
Now, The IP address of the wireless router/accesspoint is, say 192.168.0.40, and the workstations, which are wired to the switch, have an ip of 192.168.0.1-10. The wireless router also has an another ip of 192.168.1.1 and laptops that connects through it must be set to have an ip of 192.168.1.x Therefore, the laptops should be able to ping the wired workstations but, any wired workstation won't be able to ping any of those laptops. If this is your case, then the "others hosts" you mentioned would never get through the access point. I think it's important that you know what your access point is and how was it configured. :) On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 12:57, Rodel Miguel wrote: > Im not sure about the details of the access point... But it must be configured > correctly because i can ping other hosts... :). The problem is when I ping from the > other hosts to my wireless host... I suspect some system settings of my Linux box > have problems... > > Thanks Mike! > Rodel > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Liguit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:01 PM > To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List > Subject: RE: [plug] pinging problem > > > How is your wireless access point configured? Does it have some sort of > a "proxy arp" option setting? This will enable wireless interfaces that > connects to the access point be part of the wired network. > > Also, can you tell us some details of your network (I'm assuming it's a > private network) like what IP address are you using, what IP address the > access point is using, what address are you pinging and pinging from, > things like that, so we could have a clear picture of the problem. > > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 11:28, Rodel Miguel wrote: > > I am connecting to wired hosts. The access point of the wireless interface is > > wired to the local lan so i should have no problems pinging. =(. I've considered > > tiger's sol'n by disabling the local firewall of my linux box but still cant ping > > to it... =( > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Liguit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:02 PM > > To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [plug] pinging problem > > > > > > Are those "other hosts" you mentioned also uses a wireless network > > interface card or are they wired to a switch? I'm thinking that your > > wireless network card is connected to a "wireless router", that is > > connected to your switch, and has the same subnet as the "wired" host > > you are pinging and pinging from. This is what we have in the office. > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 17:41, Rodel Miguel wrote: > > > Hi Guys! > > > > > > I've installed wireless network card on my system (linux 2.4.21). After > > > properly configuring the SSID and WEP of the card, I can now successfully ping > > > other devices on the network. The problem is, I cant ping my PC from other > > > host. What's the possible cause of this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Rodel > > > > > > P.S. I forced my wireless interface to have its own IP address instead of using > > > DHCP. > > > -- > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > > > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > > > . > > > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > . > > > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > > > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > > > -- > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > > . > > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > > . > > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > -- > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > > . > > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > > . > > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? 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