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>From: Adam Goryachev [mailto:mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au]
>Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:36 PM
>To: General list for user discussion, questions and support
>Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Check-if-alive-pings alternatives
>
>You have a number of options:
>1) Change your firewall to allow your backuppc host to ping the router
>2) Change your pingcmd to either pretend the ping was successful, or run
>some other type of ping command (eg, nmap to test the ssh port or similar).

I went with option #1. It was the easiest and quickest thing to do.

Thanks all who responded.
-- 
/Sorin

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