Are ICMP packets important?

[Scott Berry]

I do know that some modems have routers built in that could be a
possible problem as well.  Have you happenen to find an accessible
manual for that modem?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

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> Hi Toby,
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> My ethernet card goes to my cable modem and from there to the
> world. No routers. Could it be my modem?
>
> Chuck
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> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Toby Fisher wrote:
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> > 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>
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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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