Re: IMCP not returning

["Sadus ." <sadus@swiftbin.net>]

This is what i'm getting:

debian:~# ip route get locationIP
locationIP dev eth1  src HostIP     
	cache  mtu 1500 advmss 1460 hoplimit 64



umm? 

On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 12:08 -0400, Jason Opperisano wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:58:25AM -0400, Jason Opperisano wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:37:33PM +0300, Sadus . wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I'm trying to ping to a host and its not answering from location 1, but
> > > it is answering from location 2, now when i ping from location 1, i can
> > > see on the host's logs that location 1 can reach the machine since i log
> > > icmp pings.
> > > 
> > > i still can't get replies from the box on location1 (i can ping any
> > > other machine on the net so my ISP doesn't block ICMPs)
> > 
> > you have a routing problem.  $host knows to get to $location_1, but
> > $location_1 doesn't know how to get back to $host (or has an invalid
> > route to to it). 
> 
> i transposed that.  i meant:  $location_1 knows how to get to $host,
> but $host doesn't know how to get back to $location_1 (or has an invalid
> route to to it).
> 
> but i got this part as i intended:
> 
> > start at $host with:
> > 
> >   ip route get $location_1
> > 
> > and follow the trail until it makes a wrong turn.
> 
> -j
> 
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