Talk to your SA at work and ask them if your firewall is configured to ignore
pings from the outside world. If it is, you'll never get an acknowledgement
for any ping you send there from an outside connection.
-Al
brian wrote:
> Can someone explain something about the response I get from some ping test?
>
> At work I have the whole Class C subnet x.x.77.1-255. When I ping from an
> internal PC (x.x.77.216) to an IP that no PC's are using(x.x.77.201), I get
> a resonse of "Destination Host Unreachable".
>
> If I ping the same IP (x.x.77.201) from home (totally different IP subnet)
> I get no response at all. The pings just fall into the void.
>
> Why is there a difference in the response I receive internally and
> externally?
>
> -Brian
