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ICMP Drop

To instruct the firewall to drop certain ICMP packets it receives in the zone, select the following settings to enable them.

Zone Protection Profile Settings—Packet Based Attack Protection	Configured In	Description
ICMP Ping ID 0	NetworkNetwork ProfilesZone ProtectionPacket Based Attack ProtectionICMP Drop	Discard packets if the ICMP ping packet has an identifier value of 0.
ICMP Fragment		Discard packets that consist of ICMP fragments.
ICMP Large Packet (>1024)		Discard ICMP packets that are larger than 1024 bytes.
Discard ICMP embedded with error message		Discard ICMP packets that are embedded with an error message.
Suppress ICMP TTL Expired Error		Stop sending ICMP TTL expired messages.
Suppress ICMP Frag Needed		Stop sending ICMP fragmentation needed messages in response to packets that exceed the interface MTU and have the do not fragment (DF) bit set. This setting will interfere with the PMTUD process performed by hosts behind the firewall.