Re: Iperf: connect failed, operation timed out

[Tanya B. <bre...@nc...>]

> I'm using iperf 1.1 on a Free BSD 4.5 machine,
> on the local machine I launched the server as follow: 
> iperf -s (the server is working correctly, I tested it locally)
> On the remote one, I typed:
> iperf -c LocalIpAddress
> I received "connect failed: operation timed out"
> Whereas the remote host could ping the local one,
> Would you please help me in this issue,
> Regards,
> Haïfa.

Can you verify that your machine is not doing any IP filtering on tcp or
udp packets? Try typing "ipfw show" and see what it says. 

Also, can you try running the server on the remote machine
and the client on the local? You are not behind a NAT or anything right?

Thanks,
Tanya Brethour