Why can my two computers on the same hub not ping each other?

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I have a pair of Windows XP computers that are connected by Ethernet cables to the same hub and they are in the same subnet (10.1.10.0/24), but they cannot ping each other. When I do attempt the ping, the requests time out but the arp cache gets an entry with the correct IP/MAC address pair. What could cause this to happen?

yalehookeye

Posted 2012-03-09T19:46:57.487

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Is the Windows firewall or a third party firewall turned on? That would block ICMP.

Dave M

Posted 2012-03-09T19:46:57.487

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This was the problem. The firewalls on both computers (McAfee in this case), were set up to block incoming ping requests. – yalehookeye – 2012-03-09T20:00:33.880

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