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[cooky560]

Since getting a Superhub 3 I've been unable to pass the grc shields up! test because of the fact it responds to the ICMP ping request. On the superhub 2 this was configurable from the firewall page, however it seems to be absent now?

[Martin_D]

Hi, Cooky560

If you what to block ICMP, You will have to enable the firewall on the hub 3.0

[cooky560]

the firewall is enabled, however it doesn't block ICMP, it responds

[Buffer6]

May be of help http://www.serverintellect.com/support/windowsserversecurity/disable-icmp-requests/

[ravenstar68]

While the link is useful to those who are directly connecting windows machines to the net.  It's not applicable here as it's the router that responds to pings.

@James_W

Do the firmware team have any plans to put the ability to block ICMP responses back into the hub 3.

If you'll recall, originally it blocked pings with no ability to disable/enable the feature, short of disabling the firewall entirely, which then broke port forwarding.  Later firmware allowed the hub to respond to pings - but again gave no option to disable it should a user wish to.

I stated during the trials that this option should have been put back in.  It really should have been actioned IMHO.

Ravenstar68

[Buffer6]

On checking my own set-up my firewall is managed by McAfee I use SHub3 with the firewall enabled and the result of the shieldsup test are

[ravenstar68]

@Buffer6 - The UPnP test doesn't test ICMP echo response.which is what the OP was posting about.

If you do a common ports test, Shields up will also try and ping the computer.

Ravenstar68

[Buffer6]

@Ravenstar Point taken.  If the ping echo were blocked then the TBB Monitor wouldn't work, so I suppose that's why it had to be default enabled in SHub3 when it was found that TBB monitor wouldn't work with the firewall enabled. Whereas in the SHub2ac it had the option to turn it on and off so as to enable the TBB monitor.  Quite right this option was not included after being reported in the trials.

[Shelke]

@ravenstar68 How about this one then? https://mxtoolbox.com/PingLookup.aspx

I tested my hub 3 against it and got this:

[ravenstar68]

What hub are you using Shelke?