How to allow pings through a Windows Xp/Vista/7 firewall.
- June 14th, 2008
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Open a command prompt using “Run as administrator” (Right mouse click on “Command Prompt” in Accessories.).
Enter:
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable
In Windows 7, this command has been deprecated and replaced with the following:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request” protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow
In Windows Server 2012 R2, to allow RDP access:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=”RDP Allowed” protocol=tcp localport=3389 dir=in action=allow