RE: Removing ping/icmp from a network

["Hopke, Greg" <GHopke () libertymgt com>]

Is ICMP on a LAN insecure?

I could see lowing it through a firewall or from trusted to non-trusted.

Greg

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Subject: Removing ping/icmp from a network

I have a variety of clients with data centres who all make use of 
icmp/ping to monitor their servers/appliances/devices (often with poorly

configured snmp versions 1 and 2).

Could anybody kindly advise me of tools and strategies for minimising or

removing the use of icmp/ping on a supposedly secure network?

Thanks in advance