Ping issue.

[Eric Whitcombe]

Someone mailed the list with this problem yesterday.

Check your firewall script for this

# IGNORE ICMP BROADCASTS
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts

Eric W
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N. Z." <nizan1372 at yahoo.com>
To: <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: Ping issue.


> Hello.
>
> I have a server running Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
> and I can't seem to ping the box. The server is up,
> accessible and running fine but one of our monitoring
> checks uses ping to see if the box is up. When logged
> into the box, pinging 127.0.0.1 doesnt' work either:
>
> # ping 127.0.0.1
> PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> 90 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss,
> time 89013ms
>
> I have another box with the same install and setup and
> it responds to pings. I am not sure where to check or
> how do go about resovling this.
>
> Any questions, comments, suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanks !
>
>
>
>
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