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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:43:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marco Masotti <masotti@mclink.it>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ping works in one direction only
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310104303.14397X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <350503E8.167EB0E7@mclink.it>

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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Marco Masotti wrote:

> I've set up a FBSD 2.2.5-REL machine acting as a dial-up ppp router
> between two private networks.
> 
> My problem is that I can ping in one direction only: I can ping from any
> host on Network A to any host on Network B, but I can't do the reverse,
> even between the same pair of machines that A-to-B works: there is no
> answer from the machine being ping'd the other way.
> 
> I suspect a problem in the gateway path, but I can't figure what might
> be.

It's definitely routing.  Is it the server or the client, or does it
matter?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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