XP Pro does not respond to ping

[Paul Andrejzchick]

I have 2 wired PCs on a wired home network going thru a D-
Link router. Both are running XP Pro. The Compaq (K6-2
processor) can access the admin shares on the homebuilt pc
(AMD 2000+) and can ping to router and the other box with
no problem. The homebuilt cannot see the Compaq and pings
from the homebuilt and the router to the Compaq are
unsuccessful (time out). Both computers can access the
internet with no problems. The only major difference
between the 2 PC configurations are the Compaq has Cisco
VPN client 4.0.2b loaded. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Do you have the XP firewall or another firewall enabled on the Compaq?

 

[Guest]

XP firewall is disabled on both machines and no other software firewall is installed. I am sometimes able to get ping replies from the Compaq after it reboots but it is not consistant. To add to the confusion, even when I get ping replies I am not able to map to the admin share or access the shared printer although I have been able to do so previously

----- Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: ----

Do you have the XP firewall or another firewall enabled on the Compaq

Paul Andrejzchick wrote

 

[Bob Willard]

XP firewall is disabled on both machines and no other software firewall is installed. I am sometimes able to get ping replies from the Compaq after it reboots but it is not consistant. To add to the confusion, even when I get ping replies I am not able to map to the admin share or access the shared printer although I have been able to do so previously.

----- Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: -----

Do you have the XP firewall or another firewall enabled on the Compaq?

I have 2 wired PCs on a wired home network going thru a D-
Link router. Both are running XP Pro. The Compaq (K6-2
processor) can access the admin shares on the homebuilt pc
(AMD 2000+) and can ping to router and the other box with
no problem. The homebuilt cannot see the Compaq and pings
from the homebuilt and the router to the Compaq are
unsuccessful (time out). Both computers can access the
internet with no problems. The only major difference
between the 2 PC configurations are the Compaq has Cisco
VPN client 4.0.2b loaded. Any help would be appreciated.

Sounds like VPN is the culprit. You can test it by turning VPN
off and on, testing PING from the homebuilt PC to the Compaq.
You may need to reboot after turning off VPN to really make it
go away.

Some VPN stacks route all traffic through the VPN pipe; some don't.
I don't know how the Cisco flavor handles stuff that does not need
to go through the pipe.