Now, it's time to check your knowledge. Select the best response, and then check your answers with those in Assessment:
- ICMP communicates issues that prevent data delivery. Common issues include the network or port being _____.
- Stateful
- Inspected
- Unreachable
- ARP enabled
- Some of the ICMP types are no longer used since, over time, they have been found to be ineffective and are considered _____.
- Quenched
- Unreachable
- Digital
- Deprecated
- In ICMPv6, a _____ message can be sent when there is an issue determining a field value in the IPv6 header or the IPv6 extension header.
- Time exceeded
- Parameter problems
- Packet too big
- Source quench
- When setting firewall rules, the only essential ICMP traffic is type _____. The others are optional.
- 3
- 1
- 8
- 2
- ICMP can be used in a malicious way. One way is a ______ scan that uses a series of ICMP echo request packets on a network to see what hosts are alive and responding.
- Payload
- Ping
- Port
- Checksum