Re: Unable to ping some machines - others ok???

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 11/09/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:12:11 -0600

Try booting into Safe Mode with networking on the laptop to see if that
makes a difference. If that works then some application or service on the
laptop is filtering outbound traffic. Another possibility is some of your
computers have an ipsec policy that allows access from only specific IP
addresses. You could boot your XP Pro computer into Safe Mode with
networking to see if he can ping your computer then. Beyond that I would
resort to network tracing with something like Ethereal to both the source
[laptop] and destination computer [your XP Pro computer] to see what is
going on at the packet level. --- Steve

"Brad Pears" <donotreply@notreal.com> wrote in message
news:OFgEvPJ5FHA.1420@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> We are working on setting up one of our saleperson's laptop with an
> application that requires it to connect to our Windows 2000 SQL server.
>
> The laptop has XP Home installed. We were having problems connecting and
> decided to attempt to ping the machine to troubleshoot the issue. We were
> unable to ping the SQL server by name or IP address. When we ping by name,
> the IP address is returned but it just times out. We were however,
> successfully able to ping other machines on the LAN no probs. Then we
> happened to try my XP Pro machine, and was unable to ping it as well!!!
> My firewall is not turned on. and other machines can ping mine with no
> issues.
>
> What should we be doing to try to troubleshoot this issue?? Why would it
> be able to ping some machines and not others on the LAN??
>
> Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>

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