On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:13:52PM +0200, Vaclav Hula wrote: > > > Ask yourself this: *Why* should ICMP be filtered? What are you gaining? > > > > What are you gaining by responding to them? > > RFC compliancy isn't enough? IMHO should be.
There's no RFC that states that you need to reply to echo requests. Hosts are required by RFC 2700 to *implement* ICMP, but nothing is said about what they do with it. I still believe that replying to pings is very much the polite thing to do. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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