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Date:      Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:20:23 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Joel CARNAT <joel.carnat@noos.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PING filtering
Message-ID:  <20010310152022.A18340@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20010310181643.29D2037B71B@hub.freebsd.org>; from joel.carnat@noos.fr on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:16:44PM %2B0100
References:  <20010310181643.29D2037B71B@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:16:44PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> hello !
>=20
> I noticed that som POP3 server didn't reply to PINGs...
> 1- How can I make my machine don't reply to PING so that my upload ratio =
(I'm using cable connection) won't explose ?

Well, you can easily do this (see other response), but unless you're
being ping flooded (a continuous stream of packets) it's not
noticeably going to affect your upload ration: ping packets are about
64 bytes each, which will hardly matter.

Kris

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