f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

[Heinz Diehl]

On 23.09.2014, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: 

> If a ping every 300 secs(ICMP\HTTP\HTTPS 1\2)Will consume bandwidth and can
> be disabled using a basic FW rules(from a network level).

This is clearly the wrong way to do it, e.g. fixing the symptoms
rather than the root cause of the problem itself.
 
> And there should be a way to disable this feature

Yes, it's mentioned here in this thread.