On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:37 AM, John BORIS <jbo...@adphila.org> wrote: > In my setup ICMP packets are dropped by the firewall in front of the > machine I need to backup. I have been searching for alternatives but > haven't found anything yet. Any pointers to a fix? Any other way to let > BackupPC know he machine is alive? > > John J. Boris, Sr. > JEN-A-SyS Administrator
You haven't given us much info on the remote machine. Is it windows or linux? Could you scp an empty file and assume it's alive if it succeeds? Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
