Albert
Thanks but Tracert is blocked as well as Ping. Looks like the only way ahead is to run ping from the Wingate machine and write a text file flag for the other machine(s) to use.



>>Hi
>>need help on pinging through a proxy server (wingate). I can ping the proxy server itself from a network machine but cannot ping an external Internet site. The result is always "request timed out".
>>perhaps it is not possible ?
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>>I need to ping to a known to confirm internet connection site before starting an FTP server connection using Mabry FTP/X. an alternative solution would be to kill the Mabry control connect method after a timeout period. Would anyone know a way to do that ?
>>tia
>>John Harriss
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>Many proxy servers are configured to block ping because it can be used for DoS attacks. have you tried tracert?