[Cialug] Ubuntu 9.04 udate

[David Bierce]

ufw is the ubuntu firewall that is installed by default and runs...but  
IIRC it doesn't eat pings, that just isn't nice.

Dave



On Jul 4, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:

>
> The day before yesterday I upgraded my workstation running 8.10  
> version of Ubuntu to the new 9.04 version.  Everything seemed to  
> have gone fine and the workstation functions normally it seems.   
> However, when I try to ping this workstation from any other  
> workstation it does not respond.  I can ping out from that  
> workstation to others and that works fine.
>
> This workstation did not exhibit this problem under the older 8.10  
> version.
>
> Is there something new in this version that would cause this?  If  
> this were a Windows machine I would suspect the firewall.  Is there  
> a firewall in this version of Ubuntu?  I have not located it if it  
> is there.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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