Re: [LI] RH 6.1 Machine hangs on issuing a PING!!!

[Sharad Joshi <sharadj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, ctdept wrote:

+ Our RH 6.1 machine which is participating in a network with a static IP
+ address is hanging on issuing the PING command.  When pinged from other
+ machines in the network, it does not respond.  The IP address given is
+ 192.168.1.201.  Subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.  All other machines are in the
+ same subnet.

What does 'hangs' mean here? Just stops working and responding to
everything or anything else?

Check what does 'cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all' spits. If
that is 1, make it 0. This makes it respond to pings.

If that entry is already 0, its time for wild guesses :). Are you sure
that ICMP echo support is compiled into the kernel?

More of wild guesses :) Are the DNS entries (/etc/hosts to be more
specific) in all the machines properly configured?

Sharad.
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