Re: [Sheflug] (no subject)

[Barrie Bremner <baz-sheflug [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J <cej [at] nightwolf.org.uk> writes:

    >>  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
    >> 

    Chris> *blink*

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

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

I'll add an "eh?" to that too.

My broadband provider (http://www.country-broadband.co.uk/) have a
leased line to Demon and pings work just fine.

Of course, this might be different to *DSL setups, but blocking ping
seems pretty stupid.

Cneers,

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
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