Re: ping probes from outside are blocked

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 15:23 -0700, com bio wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am using firestarter. I blocked pingprobes from
> outside my computer long back by enabling ICMP
> filtering. But now I want to allow others to ping my
> machine. I removed the filter ICMP option from
> firestarter but still I am not able to ping from
> outside to my computer. I uninstalled firestarter and
> reinstalled it.. but that did not help. please tell me
> how to enable ping probes from outside. Thanks
> Deepan

check /etc/sysctl.conf for
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1

and change that to 0

maybe!

Regards,



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