I think it would be better to change the ping command to the arpping
command. This way you can block ping requests on the clients (which is
safer), and backuppc is still able to check if the pc is alive or not.
It must be said then that backuppc must have access to the arpping
command which is generally only executable by root.
Nonetheless, I raised this suggestion already a couple of years ago, and
they mentioned that arpping works different then ping, and hence it
would need some reprogramming.
Regards
Klaas
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