Thursday, October 21, 2021

Differences in Ping across Windows, Linux, and MacOS

We ran into a network outage for customer today, where some traffic was allowed to the firewall and some not. In the process of troubleshooting the customer's firewall externally at the same office, we had some inconsistent results with Ping. All macos devices were would receive "request timeout", while windows and linux machines were able to successfully receive responses from the firewall.

Does anyone know if there are differences in how theses OSs handle just a normal ping request (similar to windows using icmp probes for traceroute, while linux uses udp probes)?



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