Stopping PING requests on my home router
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Mar 15, 202646891 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I can imagine that somehow not responding to PINGs from WAN would be an ok idea regarding home network security. But can there be any down-sides to this? I imagine games implement their own PINGs, so that shouldn't be affected. How about SSH connections and other, more super user-y things?
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Fix for: Stopping PING requests on my home router
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Depending on your router, disabling Ping can have a negative effect. If your router just ignores packets, all will be OK as described by @Layticia. On the other hand, if your router ignores ALL requests when you have disabled Ping, you could see sev…
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