On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:05:47PM +0000, milunovic wrote:
> > Is there anyway to deny echo request on FreeBSD (except ipfw add deny
> > icmp from any to any) ?
> > On Linux It was simple,just echo 1>/proc/.../icmp_echo_request
>
> You can limit the icmp response rate with:
>
> sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.icmplim=whatever
>
> where 'whatever' is the number of responses to allow in a second.
> You can't set it to zero however.
>
> David.
Echo requests are only limited in -CURRENT right now, I haven't MFC'd the
change yet.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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