Ping one way and not the other...

[Cadwalader]

FreeBSD 4.6

sshd is running.
IP, netmask, gateway, and DNS server IP's are correct I checked, rechecked, other peeps checked...

-can't ping it, can't ssh to it.

I can ping anything with an IP from that BSD box. But I cannot ping it from anything on my local network. The BSD junkies in IRC ran me throught the wringer...hosts.allow is ok, rc.config is ok, I did the -HUP thing and all that...I am so lost, and discouraged. I just migrated from RedHat, for the increased security and ease of use. I see the increased security, but I am not seeing the ease of use.

I am new to the *nix world, so take it easy on me... :-(
Thanks for the help... Hope I was of some help...
--OR--
Thanks for the help...
--Rich

 

[Chewie71]

Have you got any firewall running? If so disable it and try again.

Matt

 

[Cadwalader]

Ahhh..thanks for replying...

As it turns out, it was a bad NIC. I put a Linksys in place of the old one, (which was so cheep there wasn't even a name on the box it came in) and all is good. Right after fire-up, the ping [BSD box IP here] -t started getting a response.

Everything's cool now, I can go back to learning how BSD werks. So far I like it better than RedHat. ESPECIALLY make install clean...that is the best thing since the integrated circuit.

Thanks for the help anyway... Hope I was of some help...
--OR--
Thanks for the help...
--Rich