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RE: Ethernet card: no response to pings


no, inetd has nothing to do with pings, and would not cause this problem.
Oh, and Brett, also try "ipchains -F" and "iptables -F", you may have
redhat's "security" turned on which is blocking ICMP.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: jwb@example.com [mailto:jwb@example.com]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 3:10 AM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: Ethernet card: no response to pings


"Brett Robson" <brettr@example.com> wrote:

G'day Brett,

>> Short question: what is the (RedHat) daemon that listens to the network?

inetd? It is in 6.2, and these days RH installs with it turned off.

>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

Pssst. Turn off HTML. Please.

Jim
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