Monday, October 25, 2010

Solving your ping problem from windows xp

I had been stuck with a problem wherein, i could not ping my machine from other machines in the same intranet. However, i was able to ping others' machines from my machine. After extensive googling on and off for the past two years, it finally came to be the problem identified in the following link.

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/17248-help-my-windows-xp-box-cant-pinged.html

I have a cisco vpn client with me for vpn access.. It turns out the the Options -> stateful firewall was always set to on and this was preventing for some weird reason, other machines to ping my machine. The solution, though seems simple was pretty darn hard to find!

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