right. But they were claiming 10.1.10.1 could not ping 10.1.10.10.
Which is ridiculous if they both have the correct subnet mask. Which,
the customer was claiming, they did.

There may have been a breakthrough on this though, specifically
because they were wrong about the subnet masks. I think. Let you know
later.


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ICMP (ping) is almost never routable from outside to an internal network. A
> large number of networks block it at the last network hop anyway. ICMP can
> be used for a denial of service attack and you don't want to expose the
> structure of your internal (non-routable) network structure to the outside
> world anyway. That's what NAT is for and why the internal network uses
> non-routable address ranges (192.168.x.x and 10.x.x.x)
>
> Cheers,
> Judah
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Trying not to drive 100mi for a site visit. It looks like that's where this
>> is going tho. Any of your been able to ping? I find it hard.to believe
>> they
>> would turn that off but I am getting a real strong intuition that the
>> problem here is that the equipment is dumber than I am used to.
>>
>>
>
>
> 

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