On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:30:34 +0200 James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@gmx.de> wrote:
I've been playing with this problem today. I added Computer B to the hosts file on Computer A. I can now ping from A to B. BUT when I ping from B to A XP gives me this error:
"Destination host unreachable"
It looks to me that the problem is on the Linux machine. What do you guys think?
The ping is made of 2 parts: * Part 1: Send an ICMP from computer A to computer B. So computer A must know how to get to computer B. * Part 2: Reply of the ICMP from computer B to computer A. So computer B must know how to get to computer A. So your problem in this case computer B, the linux box does not know how to reach the XP. This is usually a route problem or a firewall problem that stops the ICMPs type 0 [Echo request] and 8 [Echo reply]. 1. Does the firewall allows for pings? 2. Yast > Network card > Address set via DHCP or fix IP, if fixed IP, name server and routing 3. Check route as administrator: # route -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work