On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:16 -0700, Lee Einer wrote:
> Done. Pinged Mepisbox. No packets returned. Mepisbox pings Mandrakebox 
> just fine. Stopping iptables at mepisbox returns message
> 
>     Aborting iptables load: unknown ruleset, "inactive."
> 
> I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. It does not get the 
> ping going, though.
> 
> I have connectivity through both computers to the router, and through 
> the router to the internet. The connection for the Mepis laptop is 
> wireless- is this at the root of the issue?
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it might very well be...

The wireless access point - does it have some security setting on it to
prevent wireless users from accessing other parts of the LAN?  - does it
put wireless users in a DMZ ?

Question if you do (on both machines):
#route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination    Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref  Use
Iface
192.168.0.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0    0 eth0
169.254.0.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0    0 eth0
0.0.0.0        192.168.0.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0    0 eth0

does they look like above?
do they both have same gateway address? 
 (your gateway address may be 192.168.0.1 or something in 192.168.0.x
network)
can they both ping gateway?
Craig

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