Networking problem

[James McKenzie]

On 5/14/11 6:40 PM, JD wrote:
> 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.
>
Can you use traceroute to communicate between the two of them?

James McKenzie