From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 12:08:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24935 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:08:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA02024; Sun, 10 May 1998 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:08:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bob cc: Bob , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, bjg@netacc.net Subject: Re: icmpinfo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 May 1998, Bob wrote: > On Sat, 9 May 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > > You don't have the firewall set up to block icmp, do you? > > No, I don't. While trying to get the thing working, I can ping myself from > other hosts and get the proper replies, as well as ping myself from my own > machine. Okay, now we're getting to routing. What does ifconfig -a and netstat -rn report? > icmpinfo is a handy little program that sits in the background and watches > for icmp "pings" or echo requests. When working properly, any time anyone > pings you, it reports the time, host, packet size, etc. Nice for IRC'ers > who may be subjected to the "ping flood" DOS attack. It is distributed > with FreeBSD in /usr/ports/net/icmpinfo. Ah, ok, thanks. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message