ICMP unreachables, code 9,10,13

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at cisco.com
Wed Mar 28 23:14:17 UTC 2007



On Mar 28, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Christos Papadopoulos wrote:

> Responses with these codes seem to imply the presence of a firewall.
> Is this assumption correct or are these codes meaningless?

Not just firewalls - ACLs on routers, too.

A common practice is to either turn off sending of unreachables or to  
at least rate-limit them to preserve CPU on the router.

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