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Patrick wrote:

> I know other newbies must be having this problem, but I can't find
> their posts: Though my internet connection works flawlessly, I can't
> get ping to ping anything but my own machine. I am trying to set up a
> LAN, and this keeps throwing me off.
>
> I'm on SuSE 8.2. I have a working dialup connection to the internet
> using wvdial. WWW, telnet, traceroute, and I'm sure lots of other
> things all work fine. But ping keeps returning the standard "Dest
> Unreachable, Bad Code: 9." I can successfully ping myself by pinging
> localhost, my internet IP, and my ethernet IP, and ping even
> successfully uses my ISP's nameserver to resolve outside IP's. But I
> can't ping the internet, or LAN IP's.
>
> When I do "tcpdump -i eth0" and ping 216.239.57.99 (google.com), it
> looks like this:
>
> 17:44:03.918110 64.24.114.62 > 216.239.57.99: icmp: echo request (DF)
> 17:44:04.052773 64.24.112.2 > 64.24.114.62: icmp: net 216.239.57.99
> unreachable - admin prohibited
>
> What does "admin prohibited" mean? The response is the same for every
> internet ping i've tried. My route -n looks like this:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
> Use Iface
> 64.24.112.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> 0 ppp0
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth0
> 0.0.0.0 64.24.112.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 ppp0
>
>
> Hopefully someone with more than my week's experience with this
> operating system will know the answer immediately.

Your network admin doesnt want you to use ping (ping -f can be pretty deadly
to a windoze box). if you are the network admin, check firewall rules etc

Fred
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