Are ICMP packets important?

[Janina Sajka]

Peek a boo
I see you ...

However, following the ping report below, check out the nmap report that follows.

ping -c 5 209.23.49.149
PING 209.23.49.149 (209.23.49.149) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 209.23.49.149: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=46.2 ms
64 bytes from 209.23.49.149: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=46.2 ms
64 bytes from 209.23.49.149: icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=42.3 ms
64 bytes from 209.23.49.149: icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=40.6 ms
64 bytes from 209.23.49.149: icmp_seq=4 ttl=46 time=41.8 ms

--- 209.23.49.149 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.663/43.490/46.270/2.342 ms, pipe 2

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
>From hallenbeck at valstar.net Sat May  4 16:00:07 2002
From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck at valstar.net>

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Alex Snow wrote:


> With comersial > software, you half to wait for a patch. >


More likely you have to wait for an upgrade, and then pay for it!
With commercial software, the bugs become a significant source of
new revenue for the developers.


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> From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh at sent.com>
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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