From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4946E1381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3D69E0EFC; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6FA2E0E1E for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3554F33EB0E for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:03:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.956 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.956 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.354, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.51, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63DvUl7-u6sz for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45C1033EA87 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 15:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VG9BI-0000JJ-12 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:03:12 +0200 Received: from athedsl-346745.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.210.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:03:12 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-346745.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:03:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't ping remote system Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:03:06 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-346745.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 4417acc7-3f0b-4ba4-86e9-3653b922d96e X-Archives-Hash: d8903e9d9167e211da4f0ef6a5da4b72 On 01/09/13 15:28, Grant wrote: > My laptop can't ping my remote system but it can ping others > (google.com, yahoo.com, etc). I've tried disabling my firewall on > both ends with '/etc/init.d/shorewall stop && shorewall clear'. Could > my AT&T business ADSL connection on the remote system be blocking > inbound pings? A possible reason is that the packet filter on your router is blocking this. (Meaning the router that also houses the ADSL modem.) And it's actually the router itself that replies to pings; the packets never make it to your machine. Usually there's a setting in the router's settings page where you can allow ICMP replies. So it's worth digging into the router's settings and see what you can find, if this is the setup you have. But since you mentioned "business connection", you might actually not have such a SOHO router + modem combo.