...hopefully some useful VMware related stuff
Allow Ping through firewall of Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2
30/08/2010 16:00
To allow a ping test to a Windows Server 2008 machine you need to open the firewall to allow it with this command:
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
To acheive the same thing but on Windows Server 2008 R2, use the following command:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow