Wireless can't ping wireless (even more info)

Jim Lewis jim at jklewis.com
Sun Jan 25 04:16:05 UTC 2015


> On 01/25/15 11:39, Jim Lewis wrote:
>>> On 01/25/15 11:16, Jim Lewis wrote:
>>>>   Okay, I was able to recreate the other problem after rebooting
>>>> laptop1
>>>> (Fedora 21 Mate-Compbiz Spin). I could not ping it from either wired
>>>> box. However, I tried pinging from the router and that worked fine (so
>>>> did traceroute). Speaking of traceroute, this from wired box big4:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> big4 / # traceroute 192.168.1.111
>>>> traceroute to 192.168.1.111 (192.168.1.111), 30 hops max, 60 byte
>>>> packets
>>>>  1  192.168.1.109 (192.168.1.109)  3006.581 ms !H  3006.573 ms !H
>>>> 3006.563 ms !H
>>>>
>>>>   The !H is of course host unreachable.
>>> What has IP 192.168.1.109?
>>>
>>    My wired box, big4, is 192.168.1.109. All the machines can ping it
>> without issues.
>
> Sorry if this has already been asked/answered.....
>
> 192.168.1.111 is what?  I'm guessing a wireless system?
>
> And the IP address of your LinkSys is?
>

Hi Ed,

   Ask anything you want, I enjoy the help:

   laptop1 is 192.168.1.111  (when wireless)

   LinkSys is 192.168.1.1

   big4 is 192.168.1.109       (desktop machine, always wired)


Jim Lewis





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