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Re: ICMP unreachables, code 9,10,13

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Wed Mar 28 19:26:36 2007
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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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