RE: Ethernet card: no response to pings

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

I believe that redhat keeps the default policies as ACCEPT, so this is
probably not necessary.  However, it certainly wouldn't hurt anything to do
so.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Diedrich [mailto:ranma@example.com]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:45 AM
To: 'tlug@example.com'
Subject: Re: Ethernet card: no response to pings


Scott Stone wrote:
> Oh, and Brett, also try "ipchains -F" and "iptables -F", you may have
> redhat's "security" turned on which is blocking ICMP.

Shouldn't he then additionally do
ipchains -P input ACCEPT
ipchains -P output ACCEPT
and
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
afterwards ?

-- 
Tobias
nya~ni ?

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