PING command to get around a firewall?

Question

My school has a firewall and I know I can use a proxy to get around the firewall(mines not too stable), but a friend told me that you can use the PING command in command prompt to somehow get around the firewall, but he has someone else do it for him. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Answer 1

start
run
type cmd
type ipconfig/all it will list all comands
type ipconfig/w list possible solutions

hope this helps never tried what your attempting

Answer 2

RobR gave you a good answer, but to expand on it. Ping is the most well known of the ICMP features. ICMP is used to communicate network layer messages. When you can't get a destination unreachable message - ICMP delivers it.

You can use ping to see what you can get to without going through a proxy. If the proxy is any good you shouldn't be able to go anywhere. Another ICMP feature is traceroute which will tell you all the routers you hit between you and your target.

Answer 3

I don't think so. A proxy can route your traffic through an alternate path using the proxy host to relay that traffic for you and appear as the originator of that traffic. Ping is a network tool that helps troubleshoot IP connectivity between two hosts and doesn't have anything to do with routing or relaying traffic.