You may want to disable ping replies for many reasons, may be for a security reason, or to avoid network congestion. Someone can flood the network with ping -f as shown in “Ping Example 5” in our earlier Ping Tutorial article. If ping reply is disabled we can avoid this flooding. Disable ping reply Temporarily [...]
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