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![]() Previously, a single `icmp_conn` record was built per ICMP "connection" and re-used for all events generated from it. This may have been a historical attempt at performance optimization, but: * By default, Zeek does not load any scripts that handle ICMP events. * The one script Zeek ships with that does handle ICMP events, "detect-traceroute", is already noted as being disabled due to potential performance problems of doing that kind of analysis. * Re-use of the original `icmp_conn` record tends to misreport TTL and length values since they come from original packet instead of the current one. * Even if we chose to still re-use `icmp_conn` records and just fill in a new TTL and length value each packet, a user script could have stored a reference to the record and not be expecting those values to be changed out from underneath them. Now, a new `icmp_info` record is created/populated in all ICMP events and should be used instead of `icmp_conn`. It also removes the orig_h/resp_h fields as those are redundant with what's already available in the connection record. |
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