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Why does Aix v5.1 send out icmp packets? Can it be turned off? Should it be turned off? &nbsp;I have other sys admins contacting me asking me why were pinging them. &nbsp;And, it's generating alerts in our firewall monitoring logs.
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Why does Aix v5.1 send out icmp packets? Can it be turned off? Should it be turned off?  I have other sys admins contacting me asking me why were pinging them.  And, it's generating alerts in our firewall monitoring logs.

Aix sending out icmp packets?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.