Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

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Updated: December 2014
 
 

_respond_to_echo_broadcast and _respond_to_echo_multicast (ipv4 or ipv6)

Description

Controls whether IP responds to a broadcast ICMPv4 echo request or a IPv6 multicast ICMPv6 echo request.

Default

1 (enabled)

Range

0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled)

Dynamic?

Yes

When to Change

If you do not want this behavior for security reasons, disable it.

Commitment Level

Unstable