What could be causing problems on pinging Windows 8 machines?

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The firewall will block ping requests depending on its configuration. By default, Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with ping requests blocked by Windows Firewall. Disabling or ajusting Windows Firewall will allow ping responses...

Also, there is a How-to-Geek article specifically about it:

How to Enable Ping Echo Replies in Windows 8

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Diogo

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Diogo over 1 year

Here at my job I have five machines with Windows 8 Consumer Preview installed on it. Today I was testing the network conectivity and any of the five machines answered to a ICMP ping request (but from another way, they are OK on pinging a Windows 7 system). So, I changed the switch, tested on another network that have one machine with Windows 8 and the same problem, no ping responses from Windows 8 (even pinging from Windows 7 to Windows 8 machine didn't work).

Is someone else having problems on pinging Windows 8 machines?

Does Microsoft disabled ping on Windows 8?

It is a installable feature now(such as Telnet Client)?

Should this be a problem related to the embedded network drivers on Windows 8?
- sean christe almost 12 years
  
  What is the state of the firewall on those machines?
- Diogo almost 12 years
  
  All of them are fresh-installed. I just installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview, booted and created a user for them. The firewall configs/state are just the defaults.
- sean christe almost 12 years
  
  I don't have a windows 8 install to look at so I have no idea what the defaults are. Have you tried turning the firewall off on one then pinging it?
- Diogo almost 12 years
  
  No, I haven't, just a sec I will try now.
- Diogo almost 12 years
  
  Wow, that is it, Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes with ping requests disabled by default. Disabling Firewall allowed ping responses... This behavior wasn't pronounced on Windows 7.
- sean christe almost 12 years
  
  I only thought of it because our W7 firewall here blocks ping requests.
- Diogo almost 12 years
  
  I never seen this before on Windows 7.... I don't know if all machines that I already worked with Windows 7 had Windows Firewall disabled... Everytime I install a windows 7, the first thing I usually do is disable Windows Firewal... What I didn't now with these Windows 8 machines....
- Ramhound almost 12 years
  
  Let us start by using the Release Preview. Confirm the problem is perhaps not with the Consumer Preview. The Windows Firewall is on by default ever since Windows XP SP2. I don't know you build your images to deploy on your machines but by default the firewall in Windows 7 would be on by default.
- Diogo almost 12 years
  
  Right now I'm downloading it :D