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I'm also an MSU ACD DSL customer. My experience over the last couple months has been very mixed. I've had several outages, which seem to be prone to begin on weekends when the tech support window is about to close. When I subscribed to the ACD/MSU service, I thought it was an ideal short path to a very fat broadband pipe. Sometimes problems might be with the ACD side of things, and sometimes they might be with the MSU side of things. The irony is, if there are problems with MSU's network, that's likely to be a time when I really need my Internet access to work well! I'm wondering if Margaret and other NAG folks feel that way too. As for any changes in whether ICMP or Ping work from MSU/ACD connections, I'm not aware of any. I believe the MSU/ACD addresses are treated as if "on campus". I've been using Ping from my connection throughout the Days of Blaster and Welchia, and don't recall any evidence of being blocked. Over the years I've relied on 35.8.2.41 as THE place to ping to, no matter where I am, to see if I've got connectivity. When helping a friend set up SBC Yahoo DSL yesterday, I instinctively typed that IP address. Took me a second to realize: not an MSU origination address, so I'm blocked at the border. /rich >On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Margaret Wilson wrote: > >> I have been able to ping 35.8.2.3 all day, getting anywhere from between 0 >> and 100% packet loss. It wasn't till 5:03 this evening that 35.8.2.3 >> started generating 100% packet loss continuously. Maybe they're blocking >> ICMP now, but they weren't earlier today.... >> >> Regards, >> >> Margaret >> [...] > >Maybe they were experimenting with lifting the block (which may explain >some of the on-campus sluggishness today) and decided to put it back on; >http://help.msu.edu/status/ still says off-campus ICMP packets are being >blocked. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >George J Perkins http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/perkins/ >1209B BPS Bldg, MSU Phone: 517-355-9200 ext 2567 >East Lansing, MI 48824-2320 FAX: 517-353-4500