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Originally Posted by Zebeon
Could you ping it before? Are you talking your local dsl modem?
Also, firewall, disabled icmp?
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No. I remember not being able to ping it ever.
It's a cable modem/router in one, not the one I use at home but in another place (account's in my name).
I never changed any settings, it's all on default settings.
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Originally Posted by Static~Charge
Perhaps the modem is configured not to respond to pings.
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Might be.
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Originally Posted by xytras
Do you see it via arp -a ???
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What's the exact command I should use?
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Originally Posted by Wrigleyvillain
Yeah ICMP ("ping") can be disabled/blocked. Another security-though-obscurity method.
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Makes sense. So it was like that by default? I never tried to block it.