Hi John and Jeff and All Others :) (who actually might even glance a
posting by someone like me hehehe)

    Jeff points out a very good reason and course of action that several of
my "clients" are considering... if not doing

     The main reason for blocking ping that I advocate is simply it can be
used against you... and does present possible  Denial of Service situations
if misused (whether to hack or not)

     Remember that alot of things that cause crashes and outages are just
simple "oops" by humans :)   Dang Humans! hehe

Art "sigh... is it time for bed yet? " Bahrs

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Art Bahrs wrote:
>     Lots of places do not allow ICMP (IIRC this is correct protocol)
packet
> traffic for various reasons... Tracert will show path a bit better but
will
> show if the packet stops getting "returned"

Lots more will probably be blocking it soon if not already, there were
three serious Cisco IOS issues announced this week with some major
ramifications (not the 'ping of death' exactly, but you can crash one just
using pings).

Jeff





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