Networking problem

[JD]

On 05/14/11 18:24, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 01:27 PM, JD wrote:
>> I also brought the fedora firewall down, and retried to ping Fedora
>> from Powerbook. No go!!
> That means that it's not a firewall issue.  Check your router config to
> see if it's set to allow pings inside the LAN.
Thanx!
I checked. The gateway has a built-in feature (program)
to let you ping any client on the lan (or any ip on the public net).
The gateway can ping both the powerbook and the fedora pc.
no problems there.
The fedora pc and the powerbook can ping the gw, and a third machine
connected to the GW by ethernet, and can of course ping addresses
on the public net.
They (fedora pc and powerbook) cannot ping each other!
Powerbook firewall is set to promiscuous mode.
And as I had stated earlier, I even stopped iptables on the
fedora pc, which puts it also in promiscuous mode (I assume).
Still these two machines refuse to talk.