can't ping mandrake

[simply07]

I installes Mandrake on my computer to act as a server.

However, when i try to view the server from outside my LAN, i get requet time out errors.
I have seet the port foawrding on the router i am using and have also tried differnt ports but nothing worked.

So i tried to ping the mandrake computer from inside hte network and the request times out. I can ping all the other copmuters (which are all Windows) from the mandrake.

Can someone help me set this up. I really have no idea what to do anymore...
Thanks in adance.
Steph

[jeremy1701]

It's probably a firewall issue. What are you using?

Jeremy

[simply07]

I'm running mandrake 10.0 on a linksys router...

On the router configurations:
I disabled trhe Firewall Protection
and unchecked "Block Anonymous Internet Requests"
I didn't touch any other security seeting in Security (other seeting is VPN stuff)

On the server
Secutiry - Level and checks
-Basic options set to poor (the weakest one there)
-Network options, System options and periodic checks are all default settings
Firewall status
-i allow all services to connect to the internet (no firewall)

These are the current settings i am working with...
But i believe the probelm resides on the server itself mainly becaseu it can't even ping itself... Nothing can ping it.

I am connected to the internet with it, i do see it on the routers DHCP table list and it does ping the other computers on the router...

Thanks again for all the help...
Steph

[simply07]

algihty... so i fixed the pinging problem... it can now ping itself and other computers can ping it (dont ask me how i did it ) and other computer can ping it...

my friend and i have determined the problem lies on the server itself. because i tested on a windows computer with apache on port 8080 and it works outside of my network. and if i change the server to use port 8080 it works inside the network but not outside of the network!

does anyone know what the probelm with that could be?
Thanks again
Steph

[jeremy1701]

Okay... So let's get this straight. This is the setup as I understand it:

net --- router (port fowarding to port 8080) --- Mandrake Machine (acting as webserver, gateway and file server) --- other computers on the network.

Now, MDK is then acting as the ICS Gateway to the other computers as well as the webserver to the Net? Did you use the MDK wizard to setup ICS?

Next, is Apache set to serve up pages on port 8080?

ICS = Internet Connection Sharing
Jeremy

[simply07]

yeah nore or less correct.

the net is correct (router set to foward port 8080 to MDK, Mandrake machine (only acting as a server) and other computers)

MDK is not set as a ICS gateway, simply as a webserver. The other computers connect to the internet on their own, they do not connect to the MDK machine.

In apache file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) i set the following
Port 8080
Listen 8080

Thanks again...
Steph

[resuwen]

Hi,
I also have similar problem:
Mandrake can ping other hosts but cannot ping itself ("ping localhost" just hangs there) and cannot ping from my Windows machine to Mandrake.
I tried checking the firewall option to "Everything" - still cannot ping.
#ifconfig lo shows:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1848 (1.8 KiB) TX bytes:1848 (1.8 KiB)


seems that I am missing some configuration or setting that does not allow any connect TO the Mandrake.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[rrustean]

Hi,
I also have similar problem:
Mandrake can ping other hosts but cannot ping itself ("ping localhost" just hangs there) and cannot ping from my Windows machine to Mandrake.
I tried checking the firewall option to "Everything" - still cannot ping.
#ifconfig lo shows:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1848 (1.8 KiB) TX bytes:1848 (1.8 KiB)


seems that I am missing some configuration or setting that does not allow any connect TO the Mandrake.
Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Tyr this:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

Worked for me

[mossy_]

rrustean: Thank you! that worked for me using PCLinuxOS ( a mandrake dirative).