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Old 09-23-2014
Is connection possible without ping request

I have a question which is conceptual in nature, is it possible to receive traffic from a remote host to my host machine even if the ping from host to remote machine is not happening in Linux( Red Hat).

I hope my question is clear that is it possible for a connection to happen from a host to remote machine even if it is not pinging from host to remote machine in Red Hat Linux.

Requesting a reply to my query.

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Old 09-23-2014
Yes, it is easy to configure a system to not reply to ping requests (for security reasons) but all other functions (eg, SSH, ftp, etc) still work.

A failure to ping doesn't really tell you anything.
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