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What is the most likely cause of this?

While performing a ping sweep of a local subnet you receive an ICMP reply of Code 3/Type 13 for
all the pings you have sent out. What is the most likely cause of this?

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A.
The firewall is dropping the packets

B.
An in-line IDS is dropping the packets

C.
A router is blocking ICMP

D.
The host does not respond to ICMP packets

7 Comments on “What is the most likely cause of this?

  1. hh says:

    HI admin,

    i don’t think it’s a router blocking ICMP , if it was a layer 3 device it close to be a Firewall.

    but i think the answer is
    B.An in-line IDS is dropping the packets

    coz the IDS works at layer 2 and the ping on the private Subnet is operating at layer 2 , no need to go to the gateway, it is operating over ARP.

    1. net_admin says:

      my answer is c

      if Firewall is not allowed traffic , the respond will come as ” request time out ” ICMP code 11

      IDS only for detection , not for prevention so it can’t stop packet

      router is not block the ICMP, but if routing is not available to route the packet, then response is Code 3/Type 13 means – Destination Unreachable , so the answer make confuse but this is the correct answer

      if host not response to the reply will be request time out ” ICMP code 11

  2. Catalin says:

    in my opinion the answer is D because Code 3/Type 13 means – Destination Unreachable code3 and Type 13 – Communication Administratively Prohibited. But could be in the same time C.

  3. net_admin says:

    my answer is c

    if Firewall is not allowed traffic , the respond will come as ” request time out ” ICMP code 11

    IDS only for detection , not for prevention so it can’t stop packet

    router is not block the ICMP, but if routing is not available to route the packet, then response is Code 3/Type 13 means – Destination Unreachable , so the answer make confuse but this is the correct answer

    if host not response to the reply will be request time out ” ICMP code 11


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