Are ICMP packets important?

[Scott Berry]

Hi chuck,

Just pinged you youlook good man.

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck
wrote:

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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:
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> > 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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> In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates.
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