title: How to enable Ping(ICMP) on Azure
body: <p>In Windows Azure role, I cannot ping out</p>
  
  <pre><code>D:\Users\foglight&gt;ping www.google.com
  
  Pinging www.l.google.com [209.85.143.104] with 32 bytes of data:
  Request timed out.
  Request timed out.
  Request timed out.
  Request timed out.
  
  Ping statistics for 209.85.143.104:
   Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I google it and found some one suggest run below command, but even after run it, I still can not ping out</p>
  
  <pre><code>netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMPv6" dir=in action=allow enable=yes protocol=icmpv6
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Please someone tell me the reason and how to walkaround.</p>