On 27 November 2013 17:10, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dave, > > On 11/27/13, 11:18 AM, Dave Pawson wrote: >> Scenario. Tomcat install on Linux, wired to router. Windows 7 >> connected to router via wifi. >> >> from windows. >>> ping ip.address no problem > > Which IP address? The local one or the public one of the router? I > suspect the former.
the ip of the tomcat server.... i.e. 192.168.1.254 from which .....65:8081 should be visible. > >> http access to tomcat from windows. Nothing telnet access to tomcat >> ip port Nothing >> >> wired access to tomcat from a.n.other no problem > > You mean when you try to reach Tomcat's HTTP port from a machine > hard-wired on the network using the local IP, it works fine? No, sorry , I lie Oops, Google chrom could not connect to 192.168.65:8081 > > To summarize, you can ping from anywhere but HTTP only works when you > use a hard-wired client? Odd. ping works from both wired/wireless to the 'main' wired machine containing the tomcat server > > What if you hard-wire the Windows box? I have both... neither works (sorry) > >> I've got Zone alarm on the windows box. > > Does it have any rules concerning outbound traffic? It might be > blocking lots of stuff to the local network. Outbound? I presumed the block (if there was one) was inbound, http from 'trusted zone' > >> I think I have set it to pass through for 'trusted' zone on my >> local net. > > Okay, maybe not. > > Some routers have AP-isolation features where the WiFi clients can > only get to the "outside" of the network, and can't contact local > machines. But since you can ping the local machine that seems to rule > that out. IMHO I can ping it... does that necessarily mean I can get http connections? > >> Can anyone think of more 'blocks' to seeing the server please? > > As far as the Linux machine is concerned, there is no difference > between a WiFi and hard-wired client, as long as they are in the same > IP range. I'm not sure you could configure iptables to restrict based > upon that criteria alone. Is iptables running? What rules does it have? Sorry.. excuse my ignorance, but how to check? > > Windows has a built-in firewall, but I believe it's configured out of > the box to allow anything to call-out to port 80. I'm not sure about > 8080. If you have ZoneAlarm, does that mean you have 2 software > firewalls in the mix on that machine? You may want to check *both* > their settings. I believe I have switched off the M$ firewall, since I have zonealarm running? > > Finally, the router can do weird things, too. Check your settings for > anything "restriction-related". It's a BT (our national phone company) router+wifi I haven't found anything strictly ip to ip mapping related. That is one of the potential blockers. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org