Section 8 of RFC 8335 specifies potential security concerns of responding to PROBE requests, and states that nodes that support PROBE functionality MUST be able to enable/disable responses and it is disabled by default.
Add sysctl to enable responses to PROBE messages. Signed-off-by: Andreas Roeseler <andreas.a.roese...@gmail.com> --- include/net/netns/ipv4.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h index 8e4fcac4df72..1d9b74228f3e 100644 --- a/include/net/netns/ipv4.h +++ b/include/net/netns/ipv4.h @@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ struct netns_ipv4 { #endif int sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_all; + int sysctl_icmp_echo_enable_probe; int sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts; int sysctl_icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses; int sysctl_icmp_ratelimit; -- 2.25.1