Enable ping response for Windows Server

Submitted by Derick Ng on 16 May 2011 - 11:15pm

I recently got two windows VPS for testing and stuff. The issue I faced was that even though they were Windows 2008 VPS, I still could not ping it. Came to know later that its a security feature and hence all pings are disabled.

You just need to enable it by running the following command on command prompt
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
If you wish to disable it, later, you may run this to do so
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable