> I did NOT suggest blocking ALL ICMP, just echo-request and echo- 
> replies from internal hosts to untrusted IPs.   Trojans have used  
> echo-request and echo-reply as a method of covert communication.  If  
> you had read the original post you'd see that $icmp_types was defined  
> to be echoreq.
> 
> I don't this is FUD.

Don't forget to also configure your firewalls to block traffic with the
evil bit set. :-)

-- 
Mathieu Sauve-Frankel

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