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Chapter 16 Remote Management

P-660HN-TxA User’s Guide

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16.7 The ICMP Screen

To change your ZyXEL Device’s security settings, click Advanced > Remote
MGMT
> ICMP. The screen appears as shown.

If an outside user attempts to probe an unsupported port on your ZyXEL Device,
an ICMP response packet is automatically returned. This allows the outside user to
know the ZyXEL Device exists. Your ZyXEL Device supports anti-probing, which
prevents the ICMP response packet from being sent. This keeps outsiders from
discovering your ZyXEL Device when unsupported ports are probed.

Note: If you want your device to respond to pings and requests for unauthorized

services, you may also need to configure the firewall anti probing settings to
match.

Figure 95 Advanced > Remote Management > ICMP

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 68 Advanced > Remote Management > ICMP

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol is a message control and error-
reporting protocol between a host server and a gateway to the Internet.
ICMP uses Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams, but the messages are
processed by the TCP/IP software and directly apparent to the
application user.

Respond to
Ping on

The ZyXEL Device will not respond to any incoming Ping requests when
Disable is selected. Select LAN to reply to incoming LAN Ping requests.
Select WAN to reply to incoming WAN Ping requests. Otherwise select
LAN & WAN to reply to both incoming LAN and WAN Ping requests.

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

Cancel

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.