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Why does blocking ICMP cause constant Orbi reboots?
OK, I'll start this by saying please do not respond if you are only going to comment, "why do you care about ICMP, why are you blocking it, etc.". This is just an academic question from my own curio...
I appreciate all the input, it's nice to see a forum where people actually help one another. While it is annoying to have 30k unnecessary pings a day in my firewall logs, I can just filter them out in the future. I did notice during some packet inspection that all of the Orbi satellites are also pinging the router, however blocking these doesn't seem to cause the Orbi to reboot for some reason, so I'll just leave those blocked.
Thanks everyone, see you all next time I have an obscure networking question.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, these reboots are a direct result of me blocking ICMP replies back to the Orbi while in AP Mode. If it doesn't see the ICMP reply, the Orbi reboots over and over until I unblock ICMP. I've also disabled IPv6 on all devices that I'm able to on my LAN, no real reason to run that behind NAT in my opinion. Of course my Chromecast is happily jabbering away blasting out data via IPv6, though unfortunately for it, nobody is listening 🙂
Not sure about signing up the the beta Firmware, on the one hand I do love to tinker, on the other hand I've been burned by Netgear firmware updates enough times to be wary about changing from a working firmware version. Are there any added features to the beta?
