Thanks for the responses. Transit pings work fine, it is directed pings at router interfaces in the backbone that I'm seeing problems with. I have been contacted by someone from GTE and will handle this offline, unless someone else is seeing issues and wishes to continue the thread. Thanks again for the replies! Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Howard Goldstein [mailto:hgoldste@mpcs.com] Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 12:10 PM To: Martin, Christian Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: GTEI Filtering ICMP Echo/Echo Replies? Martin, Christian writes:

Happy Y2K to all! Looks as if GTEI has begun filtering ICMP type 0 and 8 (I hope that's all) through their backbone.

No sign of this problem pinging to or from the bits of gtei's Florida links I've got systems (via mae-e or mae-w). ping shrike.parview.com ...