Are ICMP packets important?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Hi Toby,

My ethernet card goes to my cable modem and from there to the
world. No routers. Could it be my modem?

Chuck


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Toby Fisher wrote:

> 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:
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> <snip>
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> > 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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