something instead of ping.

[Damian Gerow]

Thus spake Bradley Raatz (Bradley_Raatz at health.qld.gov.au) [16/10/03 02:35]:
> can someone tell me if there is a way to check the state of a host with
> something like ping that will work on all ip hosts.  I am unable to use
> ping as our routers will not allow ping to operate due to Nachi virus
> filtering.

Might I suggest you modify your ACLs to block 92-byte ICMP echo requests,
instead of a blanket ICMP echo reqeust ACL?  That will probably save you
further headaches in the future, and will still let you ping from a Unix
machine.


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