From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 17:34:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682C916A401 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AEA113C483 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A24EBC6D; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:34:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:34:04 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Michael Grant" Message-Id: <20070329133404.8092bd13.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <62b856460703291029m23a33b2dt1f2453f74bf6cf4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <62b856460703291029m23a33b2dt1f2453f74bf6cf4a@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ping X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:34:06 -0000 In response to "Michael Grant" : > A while ago I installed 6.1 on a box. I noticed that I cannot ping > this box even though I can log into it. The pings are arriving at the > box because I can see them with tcp dump. They're not being blocked > by ipf because nothing shows up in ipmon. I added rules specifically > to allow icmp in ipfw, even though ipfw was wide open allowing > everything in and out. My box still does not respond to pings. Is > there something I need to do to manually enable pings on freebsd 6? There is nothing special that needs done for FreeBSD 6 to respond to pings. Are you using IPFW or ipfilter? You seem to indicate that you're using both, which would not be the best of ideas. Post your firewall rules so list members can have a look. Are you sure the machine that is sending pings is not firewalling off the ICMP responses? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com