Friday, September 27, 2024

Re: Access from LAN

Jesse Lawton wrote:
> Hi, theres probably a simple anwser for this but when I run a service on
> my OpenBSD laptop on my LAN I can't access it on other computers in my
> LAN.
>
> E.g. I put up a web server on 192.168.1.2 but can only access it on my
> laptop.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Jesse Lawton
>

Quick checklist:

1 - Ping your laptop from other host in your LAN to discard reachability
issues. Some Wireless LANs don't allow traffic from one host to the
other unless enabled at the router.

2 - You can try disabling your laptop's firewall altogether in order to
discard firewall configuration issues. Do this only if the LAN is
reasonably trustworthy. pfctl -d

3 - Use netstat -an -f inet at your OpenBSD laptop to ensure there is
actually a service listening on the port you think it is.

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