Are ICMP packets important?

[Janina Sajka]

Have you done some traceroutes?

Toby Fisher writes:
> From: Toby Fisher <toby at tjfisher.co.uk>
> 
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
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> > Just for kicks I tried to ping my mysterious packet thief, the
> > address that seems to be stealing my ping echo-requests, and got
> > the following:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I am not sure what all this means. Anybody know a way around this
> > barrier? or how to get further info?
> 
> I don't know what type of link you have, i.e. how fast, and the linik to 
> your first hop, but do you have some ssort of router or equivalent between 
> you and the outside World?  If so, this could be it.  At the very least, I 
> suspect this to be the other end of your connection, certainly not at the 
> boundaries of your isp I think the ping round-trip time is too low.
> 
> HTH
> 
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