Roger Hayter wrote:

On 19 Apr 2021 at 21:59:45 BST, "Harry Bloomfield, Esq."
wrote:

I'm supposed to be pinging 224, but it shows it pinging 183 which is
unreachable, yet then reports stats for 224.

C:\Users\Harryping 10.131.97.224

Pinging 10.131.97.224 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.131.97.183: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 10.131.97.224:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

That looks just plain wrong. What operating system?

It's a perfectly normal windows message,

..183 is the machine doing the pinging of the .224 machine, the 183
machine is reporting that the 224 machine is not reachable, it's
different from "no reply".