On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: > I have several friends who are admins at a local company, and they > seem to think it is amusing to flood ping my debian box which is on a
It's not. > 56k dialup. Is there any way to block ICMP packets just from that > host? I do like to be able to ping my machine from various places to You can, but it will not accomplish anything. It will still use up all your bandwidth. You can't block the ping packets until the kernel receives them, which means they've already been sent through the modem. You could do it if you had access to the system on the other end of the modem. > Any ideas? Write a letter to the owner of the company and threaten to sue them. That ought to put a stop to it right away.
