[vox-tech] Debian networking problem -- RESOLVED

[Richard S. Crawford]

Short answer:  I am a moron.

Thanks to everyone who responded and gave me suggestions and ideas. 
Thanks to Pete and Jeff Newmiller, I realized that the problem was with
the Windows computer's own firewall program; I have Zone Alarm on that
computer, and I had forgotten to add Lucien to the Trusted Zone.  I did
that, and everything is working normally now.

Thanks again to Mark, Pete, and Jeff.


On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 22:08, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 19:34, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> > here's what i suggest:
> > 
> > 1. on debian, ping XP.
> > 
> > 2. on some other host on your LAN, run tcpdump and look to see if the
> >    pings are being broadcast.
> > 
> > this will tell you if the pings are being sent correctly.  if they are,
> > the problem is that XP is just not listening.
> 
> Wow, I didn't know you could do that.  I guess I still have a lot to
> learn.
> 
> Here is the results of the tcpdump that look relevant to me:
> 
> 
> root@SEAMUS: ~
> # tcpdump
> tcpdump: listening on eth0
> ...
> 22:06:03.330115 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:04.330041 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:05.329894 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:06.329806 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:07.329675 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:08.329561 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:09.329451 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:10.329340 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:11.329234 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:12.329119 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> 22:06:13.329041 LUCIEN > 192.168.1.165: icmp: echo request
> ...
> 
> So, it looks to me like the ping is working properly.  So it's the
> Windows computer that needs to be poked at.
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