Enable Ping in Windows Server Firewall?

Solution 1:

By default Windows 2008 does not respond to pings. To enable:

Administrative Tools

Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Inbound Rules

File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4-IN)

Enable Rule

You should now be able to ping your server from the LAN.

Solution 2:

Enable ping through the Windows Firewall at the command line like so:

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

Apparently this has changed in Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer, to:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request"
    protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow

That's.. uh... quite a mouthful.

Solution 3:

in powershell you can use :

# allow-icmp.ps1
# Sets up windows firewall to allow inbound ICMP - using PowerShell
# Thomas Lee - [email protected]

#create firewall manager object
$FWM=new-object -com hnetcfg.fwmgr

# Get current profile
$pro=$fwm.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile

# Check Profile
if ($pro.IcmpSettings.AllowInboundEchoRequest) {
    "Echo Request already allowed"
} else {
    $pro.icmpsettings.AllowInboundEchoRequest=$true
}

# Display ICMP Settings
"Windows Firewall - current ICMP Settings:"
"-----------------------------------------"
$pro.icmpsettings

Solution 4:

You will want to allow ICMP packets through. Ping doesn't use TCP, so there is no port to open.