Are ICMP packets important?

[Toby Fisher]

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?

Hi, orry for the delay in getting back, maybe you've sorted it by now, but 
to answer your question, it sounds like it's your modem, with a built-in 
router.  The first hop will be the one your ethernet card is directly 
connected to.  It's possible your isp could tell you how to unblock icmp 
packets, or they may even have to do it for you if it's a managed modem.  
If not, then the likelyhood is that you need to know the username/password 
and you should be able to do this yourself.


Cheers.

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