Windows 7


Configure Inbound and Outbound Rules tutorials
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On start screen type C and select Command Prompt.
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At the command prompt type computer name that you want to ping.
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ping cbtsam_win7
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ping 192.168.1.5
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as you can see you will get 4 reply. This means that current computer is able to ping to another computer. Now let us create rule to stop it.
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In order to restrict pinging other computer we need to create Outbound rule.
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On start screen type wf.msc
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Or
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Click Control Panel
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Click on System and Security
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Click on Windows Firewall
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Click on Advance Settings
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Now click on Outbound rules.
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From the outbound rules middle penal
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Double click on File and Printer sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv4 out) in Private profile.
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In the action part enable ¤ Block the connection.
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Click apply.
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Now again go to open Command Prompt.
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Apply command ping 192.168.1.5
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You will see that now it will give General Failure Error.
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This means we are able to block outgoing ICMP IPv4 ping.
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However if you ping another computer which have IPv6 enabled, you can still ping that computer.
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For example on command prompt
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Ping
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To restrict it you need to Block
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Now click on Outbound rules.
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From the outbound rules middle penal
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Double click on File and Printer sharing (Echo Request - ICMPv6 out) in Private
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profile.
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In the action part enable ¤ Block the connection.
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Click apply.
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Similarly we can also block incoming ICMP Ping.