4 Aug
2021
4 Aug
'21
20:12
On 2021-08-04 4:02 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
It apparently has some kind of nanny code in it somewhere --the BIOS?-- and it refuses to honor requests like ping or nmap, and who knows what else.
That would require deep packet inspection, to see what a packet is supposed to do. Also, since ping is often used by help desk support, it's unlikely to be suppressed (I have done software support at IBM and elsewhere). Is the BIOS even involved in networking?