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Bug #15041

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Icmp payload default of 0 can give issues as this is not a official supported value as monitoring of a gateway.

Added by Leon Straathof over 1 year ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:
Not a Bug
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Gateway Monitoring
Target version:
-
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Release Notes:
Default
Affected Version:
All
Affected Architecture:
All

Description

Icmp payload for monitoring a gateway has a default value of 0. The result of the ICMP request can be influenced by firewalls and the chosen endpoint. Result can be dropped or delayed answers. Also the answer will have a different size as the request (18 padded zero's).
Better would be to use the same default as ping implementations inside different OS variants like 32 for Windows or 56 for Linux and FreeBSD. I have no preference which implementation is followed as long as the prone to error situation of zero payload is resolved. Lower then 32 or 56 payload including zero should be possible to set by administrators who know what they are monitoring (inside their LAN or any endpoint that is known not to give issues).


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