XP and Routers

[Ray Harrison]

Hi,

I posted a message regarding this a few days ago. The
response I got was very helpfull which suggested
installing ZoneAlarm firewall software.

This seems to have found whats bring the router line up
and keeping it up.

My XP machine seems to be issueing a ICMP Echo Request
(ping) every two minutes to our DNS server. This is
therefore bring the router line up and never enabling it
to drop.

Has anyone any ideas what is causing this ICMP Echo
request and also how to stop it without the firewall
software installed.

Thanks

Ray Harrison

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Hi Ray,

Is the XP machine a member of a domain? If so it could be a domain locator
ICMP packet. If not a domain memberf it could be some application doing
some type of keep alive.

Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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