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scarypezsanta

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Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 25

[SOLVED]internet share

I followed the wonderful guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Internet_Share and I can now share the wireless internet from my Arch box to my Windows box. I have the exact setup as the guide so the card forwarding packets on the Arch box has IP 192.168.0.1 and the windows card has IP 192.168.0.2. I can access the internet on the Windows machine and I can ping the Arch box at 192.168.0.1. however if I try to ping from the Arch box to the Windows box with:

 ping -I eth0 192.168.0.2 

or:

ping 192.168.0.2 

it just hangs. It doesn't time out or say it can't reach it, it just sits and does nothing. I would like to share my keyboard between the machines using Synergy but if I can't ping I don't expect to be able to set it up.

Does anyone have an idea of how I can get pings to go through?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

Last edited by scarypezsanta (2011-12-11 03:08:19)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: [SOLVED]internet share

Perhaps the firewall on the windows box is ignoring (dropping in iptables parlance) pings?

Last edited by lucke (2011-12-11 02:56:53)

scarypezsanta

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Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED]internet share

Wow I am embarrassed that I missed that, I turned off Windows firewall and the pings immediately started going across. Thank you for pointing that out lucke!