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--- ping:disable_ping [2016/11/21 01:30] – created peter
+++ ping:disable_ping [2019/12/01 22:24] (current) – removed peter
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-====== Ping - Disable ping ======
-You can disable all ICMP traffic on a linux machine, by the following method.
-<code bash>
-echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
-</code>
-<WRAP important>
-The above method is only temporary.  In fact anything you modify inside /proc will only stay until the reboot.
-</WRAP>
-To make that permanent, you need to add the below line in **/etc/sysctl.conf** file.
-<file bash /etc/sysctl.conf>
-net.ipv4.conf.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1
-</file>
-Doing a TCPDUMP on the machine, with icmp disabled will show you only echo_requests, because all ICMP request are ignored by the machine (No reply of any kind, so there is no mechnism to know whether its dropped or not).
-<code bash>
-tcpdump -v icmp
-</code>
-Result
-<code>
-tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes
-:50:51.827077 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: ICMP (1), length: 84) 192.168.0.102 > 192.168.0.103: ICMP echo request, id 34826, seq 11, length 64
-:50:52.827101 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: ICMP (1), length: 84) 192.168.0.102 > 192.168.0.103: ICMP echo request, id 34826, seq 12, length 64
-:50:53.826859 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto: ICMP (1), length: 84) 192.168.0.102 > 192.168.0.103: ICMP echo request, id 34826, seq 13, length 64
-</code>