Rod, I strongly suggest that you find someone who can help you with the router. Otherwise you will spend much wasted time on a problem like this. tim -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rod Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:01 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: John Vetter Subject: [windows2000] Re: What could be slowing down our Internet access Mark, What is ICMP? The router was set up by someone else; or perhaps even preconfigured like that when we got it. I know for certain that no one here has any experience with Cisco routers (which is what we have) and therefore cannot diagnose anything like what you're talking about. Rod ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: [windows2000] Re: What could be slowing down our Internet access > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:31:25 -0500 > From: "Mark Edwards" <medwards@xxxxxxx> > > You have ICMP replies disabled on your router/firewall as a security > measure. You may need someone who has experience with your particular > type of router (Cisco?) to take a look if you really want to know what > is happening to the traffic. We had a similar situation here at our > bank, and the problem was from a STP loop between our routers. We'd > still be wondering what was wrong if I had to figure that out myself :/ > > Mark ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale What's keeping you from getting more from your terminal servers? Did you know, in most cases, CPU Utilization IS NOT the single biggest constraint to scaling up?! Get this free white paper to understand the real constraints & how to overcome them. SAVE MONEY by scaling-up rather than buying more servers. http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=147 ********************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm