Title: no ping from hosts - and no backups
Mikael Lammentausta wrote:

The hosts I've set up have ICMP blocked - they don't reply to pings.
However, ssh + rsync do work, but it seems that BackupPC 2.1.2 does not start the
backups (even by actively asking them to) if it thinks the host is down.

How can I overrule the ping check?


You shouldn't overrule the ping check.

You can safely modify the xp service pack 2 firewall to accept pings from your local subnet, and optionally you can also allow access to the rsync.exe program and port 873/tcp as below....

run the following at a command prompt....
if you only want ping then just run the last command.

nettsh firewall set allowedprogram program = c:\rsyncd\rsync.exe name = rsync mode = enable scope = CUSTOM addresses = LocalSubnet

netsh firewall set portopening protocol = TCP port = 873 name = rsyncd mode = enable scope = CUSTOM addresses = LocalSubnet

netsh firewall set icmpsetting interface = "Local Area Connection" type = 8 mode = enable

Regards,

Les


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