Mark, If you can make changes in the ICMP packet size and ping count using the NetTools utility and PingPro v2.30, why not make this an option in Whatsup Gold?
This enhancement feature request has come up a number of times on wish list for this discussion forum. At a minimum make it an option for the entire Whatsup Gold instance, or per map, or better still per device. Seems like a good idea... Regards, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Mark Symons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Change ICMP packet size The packet size cannot be changed in WhatsUp Gold v8.01. The ICMP packets used by WhatsUp Gold have a data size of 50 bytes, giving a total packet size of 78 bytes when headers, etc, are factored in. Now, this is smaller than the 92 bytes that you cite for the nachi/welchia worm. So your filtering should work in theory. Could you try and set the cut-off somewhere between (say) 80 and 88? Anyway, I logged a request into our database a couple of days ago for the WhatsUp Gold ICMP packet size to be reduced to 64 bytes (minimum Ethernet packet size). I will update the database so that it has your report as well. Mark Symons Ipswitch, Inc Augusta GA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Helm Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Change ICMP packet size Is there any way to change the size of the ICMP packets that are used for polling devices in WhatsUp Gold 7? I am wanting to implement traffic shaping to drop 92 byte icmp packets used by the nachi/welchia worm to scan for vulnerable hosts and as soon as I implement this change my whatsup maps show all my devices down. Any help would be great.. Eric Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
