Re: can surf but not ping outside
Sounds like you didn't compile ICMP Masquerading in your kernel, since
ping uses ICMP packages (echo request and echo reply) you'll need ICMP
Masquerading as weel as IP Masquerading.
Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Nick wrote:
> hello list:
>
> i recently updated my kernel becuase i wanted to ip masq. and felt that if i needed to compile, might as well compile for a reason, to upgrade too! 2.2.15 w/ 2.1 debian
>
> anyways i have ipchains set up, my policies are as follows
> ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
>
> i can now surf the internet from my inside network but CAN NOT PING anything but my own gateway!
>
> when i try to ping, my error is as follows:
> icmplog: desination unreachable from localhost 127.0.0.1
> icmplog: desination unreachable from pbi.net (my dsl)
>
> i can look up the DNS but can seem to match up the IP
>
> how do i correct this problem either with ipchains or modprobing?
>
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