Yes I am the closest thing to a "network admin," although that seems a
glorified title for the owner of three home pc's which as of yet aren't
even a network. I'm running ping as root, and not flood ping. It seems
strange that any distro would by default disallow the root user from using
ping altogether. But if you think firewall rules are the problem, I'll
defenitely look into that. How can I investigate? Is there a HOWTO that
is specifically related, and not just a general firewall HOWTO?

Thanks,
Patrick

Fred Emmott wrote:

> 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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