Deployment of 3rd IP on Gateway seems to cause network issue issues

Products

• STARTER PACK-7
• CA Rapid App Security
• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

I tried to deploy a 3rd Gateway IP on my current linux box so that I can filter an entire service to that IP. Seemed like this went well in regards to the installation, however after running a continues ping on the box, I seemed to get a lot of dropped packets. I need to re-verify if I completed the steps properly, or if I was missing something.

Environment

Applies to all Appliance Gateway's
 

Cause

Need to be careful when using PING as a tool to test network stability, many network devices and operating system have setting put in place to avoid  ICMP storms 

The gateway uses iptables to prevent ICMP storms, the default setting will drop packets when more than 2 PING's occur in the same second 

Resolution

Resolution to allow more ping sessions
Needed to increase how many per-second iptables:
 
#/etc/init.d/iptables stop
# vi etc/init.d/iptables
 
[0:0] -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -m limit --limit 2/sec -j ACCEPT
T o
[0:0] -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -m limit --limit 5/sec -j ACCEPT
 
#/etc/init.d/iptables start