Are ICMP packets important?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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My ISP claims they do not block any other traffic or ports, only
ICMP packets, but I have an asymmetrical bandwidth that would
limit what services I could offer, and a dynamically assigned IP
as well. I guess there are workarounds for those limitations too,
but I am not interested in running accessible servers from here
right now. I think these nervous ISP's are trying to protect
their typical customers from their Windows OS problems. So we all
participate in the dumbing down of the internet.

Would someone who can use ping please ping me and let me know if
I am here? Try 209.23.49.149 and let me know.

Thanks

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

> My former ISP, Sprint Broadband, was blocking all pings as far as I
> could tell.  They also claimed security reasons.  It is really a shame
> as people go along and fuck things up.  First it is finger, then
> e-mail with all that spam and viruses and such, and now ping.  Soon it
> will be impossible to trouble-shoot your own network in relation to
> the internet in general.  My current ISP, Cox Communications doesn't
> block pings but they do block other popular ports on inbound to
> prevent personal hosting of servers but there's ways around that too.

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