On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:16:13PM -0800, Mahesh Jethanandani wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jan 10, 2018, at 12:58 AM, Einar Nilsen-Nygaard (einarnn) 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Mahesh,
> > 
> > Two things:
> > 
> > First, I see that you have still left in the “icmp-off” action. This was 
> > something both Kristian and I recommended removing, and I also discussed 
> > this with Sonal at the end of last year and she agreed that it should 
> > probably be removed since it seems at this point (absent anyone pointing 
> > out other implementations) to be a Cisco IOS-XR-specific feature that 
> > should probably be dealt with via a vendor augmentation initially. Can we 
> > remove this?
> 
> You are right. It was discussed, but more to understand why we needed it. 
> Before we remove it, let me clarify why we need it, and if after that the 
> consensus is still to remove it, or move it to a Cisco specific augmentation, 
> we can do it.
> 
> The idea behind having the leaf is for routers to setup a rule to accept ICMP 
> messages, allow the router to process the message, but suggest that a 
> response may be suppressed. That way one can have rules to receive and 
> process ICMP messages like “destination unreachable” or “fragmentation 
> required” that are important for routers/hosts, but prevent rogue machines 
> from discovering machines in a sweeping ping. 
>

This sort of thing seems to be done in other implementations by having
different rules for incoming and outgoing traffic; does the acl model
support that?

/js

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