Ping and LAN Problem

[Derek Broughton]

Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:31:06PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 08:59:42PM +0530, das ??? wrote:
>> >> <<<
>> >> dd at mahammad:~$ ping 192.168.0.2
>> >> PING 192.168.0.2 (192.168.0.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> >> ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
>> > 
>> > You get this message when your firewall blocks an outgoing packet.
>> 
>> I don't think so.  You get that message when there is no route to the
>> destination.
> 
> Surely that would be "No route to host" rather than "Operation not
> permitted"?
> 
I don't remember the last time I saw a "no route to host message" - I'm not
certain it's still used.  I almost (but not quite) feel like emptying my
routing table to test it now.  But since I'm network connected to the linux
box, that seems like not such a good idea :-)
-- 
derek