Our firewall blocks pings over 64k. I know it's possible to edit the data portion of the ping packet in Ping but... A) How do I make the change permanent? B) Is it possible to change the size for Ping Sweep? This is the one I really want to work. Thanks, -- Dave Noonan

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Change ping size permanently

Our firewall blocks pings over 64k. I know it's possible to edit the data portion of the ping packet in Ping but...

A) How do I make the change permanent?

Is it possible to change the size for Ping Sweep? This is the one I really want to work.

Thanks,
--
Dave Noonan

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cavell

Same thing here. Support told me that it's hard coded into the other tools.

Anybody else have any further info for help with the other tools?

awstiver

I have contacted SolarWinds about this, and was told pretty much that "that's the way it is." This causes a lot of problems, but since the first post in this thread is 18 months old, and it hasn't been fixed in 8.2, I don't know if SolarWinds has much interest in addressing it.

To change the data sent in Ping Sweep, add a registry key called

ICMP Data

of type string to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolarWinds.Net\Ping Sweep\Settings

The value of the string is what will be using in the ping packet instead of the application version information.

Sample RegFile...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SolarWinds.Net\Ping Sweep\Settings]
"ICMP Data"="test"

BK
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cherrypicker

Has anyone been able to address the same issue with traceroute?

aleksey

Thanks, BK!