Re: can surf but not ping outside

[Nick <daye149@pacbell.net>]

I did compile ICMP Masq in the kernel.

i can ping my gateway and two other machines inside my network, but can not
ping anything outside ie. www.microsoft.com

or any ip not in my broadcast

thankx for anymore suggestions



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Rademaker" <ron@wep.tudelft.nl>
To: "Nick" <daye149@pacbell.net>
Cc: "debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: 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?
> >
>