They must have an elaborate filtering mechanism...I pinged a site inside of
fastq just fine, as did bb

...that site pinged outside too

netbios isn't working though...damn, no more telecommuting

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Chung [mailto:mchung@asu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 4:49 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: RE: DSL reccomendations? anyone using PSN?


> Last time I heard you couldn't ping out of the fastq network
> or use netbios (which that is kind of understandable)..


they filter out ICMP echo packets, which prevents people from getting
pinged (panged, pung, pong'd?).. The techs do it to prevent people from
getting or performing ping floods... 


~m


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