Bill Moran wrote:
User Freebsd wrote:
Two part question here ...

first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them?

second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all icmp packets, preferrably to all but an exception list, but to everywhere works as well ...

Sure, just uninstall TCP/IP.  ICMP isn't needed unless you're using
TCP/IP.

:-)  I was going to express the same idea a bit more politely...

Try running "tcpdump -nt icmp" and paying attention to what is going on; blocking all ICMP traffic on an internet router will completely break PMTU discovery and cause hatred and discontent for normal TCP/IP operations, too.

--
-Chuck
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