On 25 Sep 2002, James Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 09:25, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > I'm guessing that that tells me that the NIC on box A is working OK, but I > > am stuffed as to why the ping reply is not getting back to its xterm. > > can you give us some sample output from the tcpdump?
Sure can. This is a ping in one xterm (2 requests, both not responded to): [[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ping cwmlps.caterworld.com.au PING cwmlps.caterworld.com.au (203.44.95.226) from 203.44.95.225 : 56(84) bytes of data. --- cwmlps.caterworld.com.au ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss and this is the corresponding tcpdump in another xterm: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # tcpdump -nn host -i eth1 cwmlps.caterworld.com.au tcpdump: listening on eth1 11:23:57.580157 203.44.95.225 > 203.44.95.226: icmp: echo request (DF) 11:23:57.583185 203.44.95.226 > 203.44.95.225: icmp: echo reply 11:23:58.571239 203.44.95.225 > 203.44.95.226: icmp: echo request (DF) 11:23:58.573486 203.44.95.226 > 203.44.95.225: icmp: echo reply -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "Flatter government, not fatter government." - me Get rid of the Australian states. ------------------------------------------ If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
