On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Jim Cheetham wrote:

Oh, and as an aside; please allow your network edge devices to respond
to ping. It's very difficult telling the difference between an
ISP-link failure (i.e. a non-IP network) and a firewall failure if the
damn firewall won't respond to ping when everything is working
normally ...

I _love_ ping and never willingly harm my very very helpful little
friend.

Alas... the "out of the box" defaults for more and more things are
getting quite hostile.

Sigh!


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