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Luminary

Oct 04, 2018

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Connecting Junper firewall to NetGear ProSafe XS716T switch

I have a Juniper SRX550 Firewall configured to handle network and DHCP. I have the cable from Juniper going into port 1 on the NetGear switch. Which VLAN does port 1 needs to be on the switch? ...

Troubleshooting

tantony
Oct 04, 2018
It turns out, it was Symantec causing the ping not to work. My laptop have Symantec, and the other laptop doesn't. I switched cables, and I'm not able to ping my laptop, but the other laptop I can.

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Oct 04, 2018

tantony,

It is possible that the ping is reaching the laptop but sending ping replies is not enabled to it . Let me share the article below and it might help:

Configure the Windows firewall to allow pings

How to Enable Ping Response in Windows 7/8.1/Vista Firewall? How to Block Too

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

tantony

Luminary

Oct 04, 2018

It turns out, it was Symantec causing the ping not to work. My laptop have Symantec, and the other laptop doesn't. I switched cables, and I'm not able to ping my laptop, but the other laptop I can.

schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 04, 2018
tantony wrote:

It turns out, it was Symantec causing the ping not to work. My laptop have Symantec, and the other laptop doesn't.

Typical Internet Security garbage. Not much added value, poorly integrated with WIndows, and a common source of issues. The best button is the [Uninstall].