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Max Ping Size Specify the maximum data size for ICMP echo response.
The default value is 1500.
IP Fragments
When an IP packet is too big to be transported by a network link, it is split into several
smaller IP packets and transmitted in fragments. To conceal a known attack or exploit, an
attacker might imitate this common behavior and break the data section of a single packet
into several fragmented packets. Without reassembling the fragments, it is not always
possible to detect such an attack. Therefore, the ZoneAlarm router always reassembles all
the fragments of a given IP packet, before inspecting it to make sure there are no attacks or
exploits in the packet.
You can configure how fragmented packets should be handled.