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Test Communication Through a Firewall

Windows platforms provide you with a command line utility called ping.exe that lets you test communication between computers.

To ensure that your systems can communicate through a firewall, ping.exe should be able to communicate with the other computers across the firewall (both directions) using the computer name.

To test communication though a firewall

1. Open the Windows Command Line.
2. From the prompt, specify the following syntax replacing MACHINE with the actual machine name:

   ping.exe MACHINE