Windows 7 ping

[Thrasher (_!_)]

does anyone know how to make Windows 7 perform pings properly?

If you try and ping something that is offline...you get a reply from your own IP saying "Destination host unreachable" when I want a proper fail :-/

 

[Ðeadßoy]

its the windows firewall

if you just wanna do every now and again turn off firewall ping then turn back on

if not you gotta make a rule google aint bad u know

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

Firewall on or off I get same response: my IP is 192.168.1.105

CUsers\Andy>ping 192.168.1.2

Pinging 192.168.1.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.105: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.105: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.105: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.105: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.2:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

 

[Bart]

you deleeted the internetZ

 

[pinhead]

You're pinging something in the same subnet, it's completely normal that it returns "destination not reachable".

If you try pinging 123.123.123.123 or something it will time out.

 

[Thrasher (_!_)]

Thanks Pinny....I hadn't noticed it behaves differently for off subnet hosts.