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Yes, that should work provdided that your Eth0 interface is running. If its not that could contribute to your 100% loss because the ethernet interface isnt on.
Another thing to consider type "ifconfig" in a term window. That will tell you what your IP is and if the interface is running.
I should also mention that I have Mandrake 9.1's firewall running.
I'm not sure what you mean by icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1.
Could you suggest what I should try next?
I tried the following advice from usenet and now find that I can PING 192.168.1.1 (my gateway) but I can't ping my own IP nor can I ping the IP of the XP machine.
What should I try next? Open a port on the firewall?
==Advice from usenet==
In /etc/sysctl.conf change the line
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1
to
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=0
and then run
sysctl -p
after typing
iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
============================ Sitting at my Linux box:
I *can* ping:
192.168.1.1 (my router) www.linuxquestions.org
I *can't* ping:
192.168.1.113 (myself, i.e. the linux box)
192.168.1.109 (the xp box)
============================ sitting at my XP box
I *can* ping
192.168.1.1 (router)
192.168.1.109 (myself, i.e. the XP box)
I *can't ping:
192.168.1.113 (the linux box)
============================
Just to re-iterate, all I am really intending upon doing is sharing files betweent the two computers, but I understand this pinging issue should be resolved first?
it might seem like an odd question, but windows does odd things. Have you tried virus scanning the XP box?
i had a very similar problem lately with my connection. Right now i have an XP box connected to the internet, which is directly networked to a Linux box via a cross over cable. Its a bad setup, but for the next 2 weeks at least it does the job.
I got a virus on my XP machine and after that internet sharing screwed up, but stranger still, i couldnt even ping the machine. I still dont know why now, but after i cleaned up my XP machine i could suddenly ping it again.
god knows what that virus did, but iv had no problems since.
EDIT - actually forget that, you should still be able to ping the loopback address on Linux no matter what is wrong with XP
I did have the mandrake security level set to "higher". In case that was interfering, I have reduced it to "high" using DrakSec in Mandrake Control Centre, but am still getting the same PING results as my last post.
(p.s. There's no viruses on XP by the way.)
(p.p.s Does this ping issue matter? Can I ignore it and get on with trying to network XP to Mandrake?)
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