On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > Rich > > I have seen security options in wireless router config pages along the lines of "wireless isolation" - something about preventing wireless clients from talking to other hosts on the network. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
