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I think perhaps the general suspicion of ICMP might be related to things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death which are now mostly irrelevant.
Some sort of naive attempt to stop attackers mapping your network too perhaps? It's not exactly a high tech (or effective) means of intrusion detection though.
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I think perhaps the general suspicion of ICMP might be related to things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death which are now mostly irrelevant.
Some sort of naive attempt to stop attackers mapping your network too perhaps? It's not exactly a high tech (or effective) means of intrusion detection though.