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Hi, am configuring a debian server(gateway) but it does not ping other clients in the LAN and the clients cant ping the server.So it doesnt send traffic and doesnt received.Can ...
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    Hi, am configuring a debian server(gateway) but it does not ping other clients in the LAN and the clients cant ping the server.So it doesnt send traffic and doesnt received.Can someone help me?????????

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    Quote Originally Posted by flexy
    Hi, am configuring a debian server(gateway) but it does not ping other clients in the LAN and the clients cant ping the server.
    There is a nice tutorial on how to do that here :
    http://www.cyberdogtech.com/firewalls/

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    So it doesnt send traffic and doesnt received.Can someone help me?????????
    Did you make sure the file /etc/network/interfaces is rightly configured ? What about iptables ? Do you use any firewall ?

    How do you connect to the internet ? DHCP ? Static IP ?

    Which version of Debian is that ?
    "To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow."

    -Bruce Lee

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    Thx for the reply. Am using Debian 3.1 sarge.for now the server is not connected to the internet but is connected to a LAN.I assigned an ip add to server as 192.168.5.1,subnet 255.255.255.0.The windows clients has an ip 192.168.5.2,192.168.5.3 etc but all the pcs communicate and cant ping each other.hey systems supposed to communicate to each other with or without an internet connection.Am not using any firewall.This is a final yr project am doing as a proxy server.Thx

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