[OLUG] failures

[Drazak]

Are you trying to ping through a NAT firewall (maybe an adsl router?) of
any kind?  Certain NAT firewalls dont allow pings through, and lots of
ISP's block all ICMP, even echo_requests.

_Drew

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Nathan Brown wrote:

> Yes i'm gonna bring this box to the meeting again.
> Yes , with netscape if I use the numbers instead of the name I can get to any
> site. but my ping is sort of defficient from with i can tell.
> no , any time i have ever pinged no matter what i have done witht he command
> (ping ping -n ping -c 5 ) i have received no reply from anywhere .
> 
> Ok i'm fighting ... it's these gloves are too small though
> thanks ...
> Nate
> 
> 
> Dave Burchell wrote:
> 
> > Nathan Brown says:
> > >
> > > Has everyone given up ??? I think I have.
> >
> > Na, you have not yet begun to fight!
> >
> > Have you _ever_ gotten ping to work while using Linux?  Have you _ever_
> > been able to ping the "other side" of your PPP connection and get an
> > answer back?  You said you reached the OLUG Web page once by using the
> > IP address; does this mean we have an intermittent problem here,
> > folks?
> >
> > Are you bringing the aliling box to the meeting?
> >
> > --
> > Dave Burchell                                          40.49'N, 96.41'W
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