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Configuring the System to Drop Certain ICMP Reply
Messages
You can configure the Dell EMC Networking OS to drop ICMP reply messages. When you configure the drop icmp command,
the system drops the ICMP reply messages from the front end and management interfaces. By default, the Dell EMC
Networking OS responds to all the ICMP messages.
Drop the ICMP or ICMPv6 message type.
drop {icmp | icmp6}
CONFIGURATION mode.
You can configure the Dell EMC Networking OS to suppress the following ICMPv4 and ICMP6 message types:
Table 85. Suppressed ICMP message types
ICMPv4 message types
Echo reply (0)
All sub types of destination unreachable (3)
Source quench (4)
Redirect (5)
Router advertisement (9)
Router solicitation (10)
Time exceeded (11)
IP header bad (12)
Timestamp request (13)
Timestamp reply (14)
Information request (15)
Information reply (16)
Address mask request (17)
Address mask reply (18)
NOTE: The Dell EMC Networking OS does not suppress the ICMP message type echo request (8).
Table 86. Suppressed ICMPv6 message types
ICMPv6 message types
Destination unreachable (1)
Time exceeded (3)
IPv6 header bad (4)
Echo reply (129)
Who are you request (139)
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