>   I'd greatly appreciate insights from you professional network admins since
> I'm out of ideas.
>
>   One host on the network, the Toshiba laptop, communicates via a wireless
> connection to both the LAN and, via the router/bridge the Internet. From the
> laptop I can ping other LAN hosts as well as external sites. However, from
> the main server/workstation I cannot ping (or otherwise access) the laptop.
>
>   When I try I'm told that the destination is unreachable. Usually I see
> this when the network is down, but it's up and running just fine. I suspect
> the issue is with the wireless access point, which is another node on the
> LAN. I cannot ping that host, either; there's no message, just dropped
> packets.
>
>   Any and all thoughts on why communications _from_ the laptop work while
> attempts _to_ the laptop fail are appreciated.

is the wireless acting as a bridge or a router?  is the laptop on a 
different subnet than the rest of your network?
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