Ping utilities can be used for basic network connectivity test; the ping command sends out an ICMP Echo Request packets and the destination host will reply with an ICMP Echo Reply packets if the host is alive. However, in some cases the host might be alive and responses are not received. What is the most likely cause of such behavior?

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C. A filtering device is dropping the packets

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A. The packet suffers from time exceeded in transit

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B. The packet did not reach the destination gateway

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D. The remote device OS does not support the ping command.

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