How to disable Ping Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) reply on RSA Authentication Manager 8.1
4 years ago
Originally Published: 2016-05-11
Article Number
000052978
Applies To
RSA Product Set: SecurID
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.1
Issue
This article explains how to disable ping on RSA Authentication Manager.
Resolution
  1. Connect to the Authentication Manager server via SSH or a direct connection.
  2. Login as rsaadmin.
  3. Change to the root user
​sudo su
  1. When prompted, enter the rsaadmin password.
  2. Open /etc/sysctl.conf in a text editor:
​vi /etc/sysctl.conf
  1. Add the following line (net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1), shown in bold below the line for net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries = 1:
# # Disable response to broadcasts.
# You don't want yourself becoming a Smurf amplifier.
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts = 1
# enable route verification on all interfaces
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
# enable ipV6 forwarding
#net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1
# increase the number of possible inotify(7) watches
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 65536
# avoid deleting secondary IPs on deleting the primary IP
net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries = 1
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1

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  1. Press [ESC[ and save and close the file:
:wq!
  1. Edits to /etc/sysctl.conf will take affect immediately by running sysctl -p, and on reboot of the Autehntication Manager server.
sysctl -p​ sysctl.conf