XP Pro ping problem after a few seconds

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Godzilla

Dear all,

I have discovered something weird in XP... the scenario is this; I
have one XP Pro box and one win2003 box, both connected together via a
direct serial connection using PPP. The XP Pro box connection is
firewalled, but I allow ping request echo for that particular
connection.

The weird thing is that when I establish the connection from the XP
Pro box to win2003 box, I tried to ping from win2003 to XP. The first
few seconds of pinging went fine... then after a few seconds, the XP
box seemed not responding to the ping request. Why is that??

This problem goes away when I turned off the firewall... is it a known
issue in XP???

Thanks for helping...
 
Just adding more info for my above question, the problem experienced
only when I am using computer name as the ping parameter. If I use IP
address, the ping is still ok.
 
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