Ah, I thought that you meant that you couldn't ping from the outside. Have
you had them send you a screen shot of:  ipconfig /all

?


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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