OK, I'm going to try this one more time. Any insight would be greatly
appreciated.

I've got two Mandrake 9.0 boxes (and a Windows 2000 Pro box) on a private
LAN. Mandrake Box1 can ping/telnet/tracepath/etc... to Box2 without
problem. However, Mandrake Box2 cannot tracepath/telnet/etc.. to Box1; it
can ping Box1.

Box1 causes the same behavior when tracert from the Win2kP box as well.

I'm using IP addresses, rather than names, so I don't think it's DNS.
It's all local traffic, so I don't think it firewall.

It might be some access control on Box1 (I have a hosts.allow and
hosts.deny set). However, they appear OK.

I realize I might not be giving enough information here. But am not
really sure where to go next. Could somebody give me some help tracking
down the problem.

Again, any info would be greatly appreciated

-greg -> angrygreg@yahoo.com


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> I've got two Mandrake 9.0 boxes (and a Windows 2000 Pro box) on a
> private LAN. Mandrake Box1 can ping/telnet/tracepath/etc... to Box2
> without problem. However, Mandrake Box2 cannot tracepath/telnet/etc..
> to Box1; it can ping Box1.

What error message do you see?

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Jem Berkes
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 00:52:39 +0000, Jem Berkes wrote:

>> I've got two Mandrake 9.0 boxes (and a Windows 2000 Pro box) on a
>> private LAN. Mandrake Box1 can ping/telnet/tracepath/etc... to Box2
>> without problem. However, Mandrake Box2 cannot tracepath/telnet/etc..
>> to Box1; it can ping Box1.
>
> What error message do you see?

I get a "no reply" message, and finally a "too many hops" message

Thanks for the reply.

Also, I tried arping (?) because it was mentioned in the tracepath man
pages... It seemed to find Box1 with no problem.

-greg


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"Greg Akins" <insomnia@cvzoom.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.06.26.01.11.58.418519@cvzoom.net>...

>
> >> I've got two Mandrake 9.0 boxes (and a Windows 2000 Pro box) on a
> >> private LAN. Mandrake Box1 can ping/telnet/tracepath/etc... to Box2
> >> without problem. However, Mandrake Box2 cannot tracepath/telnet/etc..
> >> to Box1; it can ping Box1.
> >

So I've been trying to get more information on why tracepath won't
work between boxes (when ping does).

DNS isn't in play since I'm using IP addresses
Firewall rules? I don't have any set for the box... But maybe I
accidentally configured something at sometime... Anywhere to check
this? ( I deleted hosts.allow and hosts.deny)

Anything else that might be causing this problem? Are there any logs
for eth0 that might give me more information about what's happening to
the traffic?

-greg -> insomnia@cvzooom.net