Trend Micro Pro and cannot PING

Ritter 197

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Mar 15, 2008, 8:03:15 PM3/15/08

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I use Trend Micro Pro and all works fine, I can e-mail, see newsgroups, the
web, but Ping does not work.

It shows 0 seconds, 4 packets sent, none received.

Is ping even ever important?

MoiMoi

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Mar 15, 2008, 8:35:16 PM3/15/08

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In article <z_edncU_PoRZ_kHa...@comcast.com>, Ritter197
@comcast.net says...

Some hosts disallow pinging.

MM

Ritter 197

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Mar 15, 2008, 10:09:35 PM3/15/08

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I cannot ping anything though.

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MoiMoi

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Mar 15, 2008, 11:21:49 PM3/15/08

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In article <O6SdnXtTzrf9HEHa...@comcast.com>, Ritter197
@comcast.net says...
> I cannot ping anything though.

try pinging
yahoo.com

Just did, got response.
If you can't, must be something on your system not allowing certain
outbound functions.

Course, if everything else works, doesn't really matter.

MM
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Ritter 197

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Mar 16, 2008, 9:00:40 AM3/16/08

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Pinging does not work on Yahoo either. Everything else works.

WHAT is Pinging actually used for?

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David H. Lipman

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Mar 16, 2008, 9:25:46 AM3/16/08

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From: "Ritter 197" <Ritt...@comcast.net>

| Pinging does not work on Yahoo either. Everything else works.
|
| WHAT is Pinging actually used for?
|

Packet Internet Groper
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1574.html

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8605

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Jim

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Mar 16, 2008, 10:39:19 AM3/16/08

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"Ritter 197" <Ritt...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Most of us use Ping to test the basic functionality of our network. Ping
sends an ICMP packet with the correct type to a computer. If all is well,
the computer
responds with a ping reply packet. ICMP packets are used for quite a few
purposes, thus if you cannot ping a remote computer, what else can your
network not
do?

Jim

Ritter 197

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Mar 16, 2008, 3:43:18 PM3/16/08

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Reading these abstracts I come to the conclusion that not "pinging" might
actually be a good thing to evade viruses etc. Right?

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Ritter 197

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Mar 16, 2008, 3:45:47 PM3/16/08

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+I do not know what it CANNOT do.

I tell you what it CAN do:

Email, send and receive
Access Newsgroups and add new ones
Access web sites
Use IE and Firefox
See CNN videos

Is there something important I am missing?

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David W. Hodgins

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Mar 16, 2008, 4:11:48 PM3/16/08

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On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:45:47 -0400, Ritter 197 <Ritt...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Is there something important I am missing?

Pinging is generally only used when diagnosing other network problems.

Most likely, you have icmp packets disabled in the windows (or other)
firewall, or being blocked by a router. The firewall most likely has
seperate settings for ping request outbound, and ping reply inbound, both
of which, would have to be enabled.

Unless you are interesting in learning more about network troubleshooting,
it doesn't matter.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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David H. Lipman

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Mar 16, 2008, 4:36:38 PM3/16/08

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From: "Ritter 197" <Ritt...@comcast.net>

| Reading these abstracts I come to the conclusion that not "pinging" might
| actually be a good thing to evade viruses etc. Right?
|

Not exactly. No.

Ritter 197

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Mar 16, 2008, 9:52:00 PM3/16/08

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Ah, so ???

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Ritter 197

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Mar 16, 2008, 9:52:49 PM3/16/08

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Thanks, great answer and makes me feel MUCH better!

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David H. Lipman

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Mar 16, 2008, 10:00:10 PM3/16/08

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From: "Ritter 197" <Ritt...@comcast.net>

| Ah, so ???
|

It has nothing to do with malware.

Dave Budd

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Mar 17, 2008, 4:55:19 AM3/17/08

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In article <vKWdnfbVwJd25UDa...@comcast.com>, Ritter197
@comcast.net says...

> +I do not know what it CANNOT do.
>
> I tell you what it CAN do:
>
> Email, send and receive
> Access Newsgroups and add new ones
> Access web sites
> Use IE and Firefox
> See CNN videos
>
> Is there something important I am missing?

Access shared drives on a local network?
Access other networked drives?
Access time servers?
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