From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 10 10:43:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA21763 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA21681 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA14535; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:43:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:43:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marco Masotti cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ping works in one direction only In-Reply-To: <350503E8.167EB0E7@mclink.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message