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F_V
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Jun 22, 2023
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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...
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    F_V
    Jul 01, 2023

    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.