Saturday, September 26, 2009

Allow PINGs through your Windows Vista Firewall

It is not possible to ping your windows vista computer from another computer while having your firewall enabled. Yes the most simplest and the most drastic solution is to disable the firewall. But there are better ways to get over it.

Enable ICMP Echo Request

Open an Administrative command prompt. This could be done by right clicking the cmd --> Run as Administrator OR in the search pain type cmd and Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Once you open it type the following to Enable ICMP Echo Request

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable

To disable ICMP Echo Request

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable

Hope this helped most of you out there wondering how to enable a ping request on your Windows Vista PC without having to disable the firewall

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