Re: How to ping a router behind two routers ?

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From: Roland Hall (nobody_at_nowhere)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:31:50 -0500

"Sam Mok" <sam_ys@163.net> wrote in message
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: Dear Roland ,
:
: Do you mean that I can't ping 192.168.0.1~254 from 10.144.9.1~254 in our
: company's settings ?

No, I have no way of knowing that. I said if ICMP echo requests are being
denied, you'll never get a response. PING and TRACERT can be denied a
response if ICMP echo requests are disabled on the router.

If your WAN setup is:

net1 -[router]- net2 -[router]- net3

and you can ping from any host on net2 to net3 but not from net1 to net2 or
net3 then perhaps the router between net1 and net2 is blocking ICMP echo
requests. 

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Roland Hall
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