Re: [Sheflug] (no subject)

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> My apologies, forgot to turn html off, 
> 
> what i ,meant to say was that demon and bt block all icmp traffic on there=
>  network, and as such ping wont work, you need to use the tracepath command=
>  from within  the sbin directory, as this uses udp
> 

*blink*

They do?? They didn't used to (at least, 12 months ago they didn't, last
time I had any dealings with Demon at least; BT I've never used, but their
bankbone's allow ICMP though from what I've seen).

Seems inherently stupid to me. Anyone want to hazrd why, as I can't think
of any sane reason...

Chris...

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