Enable ping with Windows 2008

The firewall of Windows 2008 closes ICMP replies by default.
You can enable the ping command with following steps:

1) Go to Start
2) Open a command prompt
3) Type in the following: netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8

Test it out, the server should be pingable now!

To disable it again, you give in this command: netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable

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