Sep 21 17:56 2015, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Markus Reschke:
MR>> IIRC, echo reply is disabled by default starting with Win7.
MvdV> ICMP is essential for the proper operation of IPv6. Disabeling it MvdV> by default is bad juju. It should be enabled by default, at least MvdV> for IPv6.
Echo request/reply is just a small part of ICMP. The best approach is to rate limit echo requests to allow debugging while protecting the host/net.