Vista firewall and traceroute

[ozone_friendly]

I have problem with Vista built-in firewall and Wandering IPs ( http://wandering-ips.com ). For some reason the '3D traceroute' function of this program is blocked by Vista firewall. Adding the program name to exception list does not help. What else could I try? It's definitly firewall issue because '3D traceroute' work just fine when firewall is disabled (which of course is not a solution).

[Monty007]

Hi ozone, according to the FA&Q it is the program that is the problem with Vista http://wandering-ips.com/faq.html

[dairybee]

I've played with that program a little. You'll have to create new inbound rule for ALL programs to allow connection, then doubleclick on it to open properties window, go to 'protocols & ports' tab and set 'protocol type' to ICMPv4. Sound complicated but works.

[dairybee]

Forgot to mension that you can use netsh command to simplify the process. At command line type:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="allow icmp time exceeded" protocol=icmpv4:11,any dir=in action=allow