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?

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?

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



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hh

hh

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.

net_admin

net_admin

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

david

david

Answer is C

A IDS can´t drop packets. It only detect

erik

erik

local network excludes the router and the FW, IDS works as detector, so the only reasonable answer could be D.

Catalin

Catalin

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.

net_admin

net_admin

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