Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:13:30AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > I was on @Home for about a month. Anyway, blocking ICMP is the least > of my worries if I have to talk to support. Next time, for fun, call > your support line and tell them you're runnin

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-29 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: [snip] > > I've been blocking all incoming, non-stateful, ICMP for a > > number of years on my cable-connected LAN and have never had a > > problem, but I don't run any type of globally acces

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:51:15AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > For a server I'd agree. For a home system I'm not sure there's any > issue. Yeah, and you've never taken flak from your boss from sending a truck out to go fix equipment that's function

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-27 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Personally, I'd rather make my presence on the 'net as hard to > discover as possible. If you allow echo requests it's a simple matter > for someone to run nmap, for example, to find out that a particular IP > address is valid. If you block such messages

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-27 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:09:29PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > On Sun, 25 May 2003 07:31:02 -0700 > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 09:56:07PM +0800, Hanz wrote: > > > > In setting up a firewall will there be any negativ

Re: blocking icmp...

2003-05-27 Thread Soren Andersen
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:09:29PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2003 07:31:02 -0700 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 09:56:07PM +0800, Hanz wrote: > > > In setting up a firewall will there be any negative side effects if > > > i block icmp?

Re: Blocking ICMP requests from certain hosts?

1999-11-24 Thread William T Wilson
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