{"id":184,"date":"2008-06-14T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T19:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2015-01-22T18:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:19:55","slug":"how-to-allow-pings-through-a-windows-vista-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"How to allow pings through a Windows Xp\/Vista\/7 firewall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open a command prompt using &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221; (Right mouse click on &#8220;Command Prompt&#8221; in Accessories.). <\/p>\n<p>Enter:<br \/>\n  netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable<\/p>\n<p>In Windows 7, this command has been deprecated and replaced with the following:<\/p>\n<p>netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=&#8221;ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request&#8221; protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow<\/p>\n<p>In Windows Server 2012 R2, to allow RDP access:<\/p>\n<p>netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=&#8221;RDP Allowed&#8221; protocol=tcp localport=3389 dir=in action=allow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open a command prompt using &#8220;Run as administrator&#8221; (Right mouse click on &#8220;Command Prompt&#8221; 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=&#8221;ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request&#8221; protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow In Windows Server 2012 R2, [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-icmp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}