[Mailinglist] Internet Connection Sharing

[Sunjith P S]

Hi,

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 21:45, Binny V Abraham wrote:
> > Try "ping google.com" from windows machine.
> Now things are really interesting - I can ping
> google.com from the XP System - but cannot open it in
> the browser. Any idea why this is so?

Check if there is any proxy setting in your internet explorer. Disable proxy 
(if any). Try a different browser (say, firefox or opera). Another reason can 
be firewall. To rule this out, try telneting to port 80 of google.com from 
windows machine.


> This is a problem - if I run this command
> iptables --flush
> the whole network comes to a halt. I cannot even ping
> my own network card from the linux system. Before
> posting this question on this group, I searched a bit
> for how to do it and did a lot of experimenting. I may
> have mess up the configurations a bit.

hmm.. that's weird.

Regards,
Sunjith