>Well, if you can't ping the address, it certainly won't work. I thought you just weren't being given the prompt for logging in.
That's not strictly true - PING can be disabled separately from other protocols which can continue to work just fine - for example, microsoft.com.
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>>I did what you suggested but still I am out of luck. I think the problem is that the IP 128.1.0.8 is only for internal use on their (customer) network.
>>I think I read about it somewhere that some IPs are reserved for the internal use. Yet they gave it to me for connecting from internet.
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>>Thank you for the suggestion anyway.
Regards. Al
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