On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:32:17PM +0100, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
>>> On Sat, 1 May 2004, raoul duke wrote:
>> > the strange this is that i've had these settings in place for a few months,
> > it was only last week when the problem occured.
>> Okay, so what did you do last week? :-)
nothing, that's the strange thing. i hardly ever use this pc. my da checked
his emails on the night when things stopped working but he knows absolutely
nothing about computers and his account on the pc has hardly any
permissions on the pc.
>> > > The "Operation not permitted" for ping sounds like a firewall.
> >
> > hmm... strange, i never messed with any firewall settings. the only
> > firewall settings that are in place are from the package ipmasq.
>> It *still* sounds like a firewall... the only time I have ever seen that
> message is when outbound ICMP was blocked.
>
could it be some kind of package that i need? could it be that the eth1
card is faulty?
> Ronan
>
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