Timothy Murphy wrote: > Markus Falb wrote: > >> I would use tcpdump on the CentOS Server to be sure the icmp echo >> requests are arriving or not. tcpdump is something like ethereal but it >> could be as easy as >> >> $ tcpdump -l proto \\icmp >> or >> $ tcpdump -l proto \\icmp and host sourceip >> or >> $ tcpdump -li ethX proto \\icmp >> or >> ... > > Thanks for the instructions. > Nothing seems to get through: > -------------------------------------- > [tim at helen ~]$ ping anghiari.homelinux.com > PING anghiari.homelinux.com (79.46.6.203) 56(84) bytes of data. > > --- anghiari.homelinux.com ping statistics --- > 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2000ms > -------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------- > [root at alfred tim]# tcpdump -l proto \\icmp > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode > listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes > > -------------------------------------- > > So I assume the modem is rejecting the ICMP packets. > As I said, I don't see anything about this > in the modem documentation or on the modem web-site. > > ICMP packet always reaches the system with destination IP, unless it was purposely redirected by the system with the IP. In your case this is modem/router, so he responds. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant