[plug] no ping

[Michael]

Hi Mark,

You'll probably find the provider is blocking ICMP with certain packet 
sizes, I doubt they'd block ICMP entirly, this would be very very bad 
for some people. 

Try a ping -s 64 or something :)

Kind Regards
Michael Collard

On Sun, 23 May 2004, Mark Saxon wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Had this reply from my isp support chapy in reply to access to 
> www.bom.gov.au
> and no ping response.
> 
> 
>  >There's a strange problem between our main proxy server and that 
> particular site,  which is unreachable  by ping anyways, since theyy've 
> turned off icmp replies at thier end I >suspect.
>  
>  >Also we've turned off icmp  on our dialin servers except pinging our 
> main server 202.38.162.10. If you need to ping something externally , we 
> have a ping tool in our support >page.
> 
> Their ping tool is browser based and I really don't want to be going to 
> their
> site every time I want to ping or test a host. What Linux options do I 
> have for
> testing a host in that case?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
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