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Pinging 192.168.1.5 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.4: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.4: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.4: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.4: Destination host unreachable.
Pinging a windows machine on my home network with the IP 192.168.1.5, Windows is trying to get replies from 192.168.1.4. The machine I am pinging has an automatically obtained IP and it can access the internet fine. The machine I'm pinging from is able to ping any other machine on the network just fine.
I've never encountered anything like this before.
Can anyone shed some light? Why would this be happening?
Things I haven't tried yet:
- Rebooting router
- Rebooting my machine
- Rebooting target machine (or renewing target IP)
Edit: Pinging any "unassigned" IP on the network will try to get replies from my own IP (192.168.1.1 will try to get replies from my own IP) - thanks to regan's answer for pointing me that way. I'm 100% sure this machine is connected to the same network and there is no firewall active.
this is how it's supposed to work – davr – 2009-09-09T00:40:42.507
@ Ciaran - you may want to mention that your own IP, in the example above, is 192.168.1.4. – J. Polfer – 2009-09-09T13:36:32.370