From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 21:27: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D847D37B895 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:27:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA28587; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38EC1200.AC5A55A9@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:26:40 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Omachonu Ogali Cc: Pete Fritchman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: icmp-response bandwidth limit question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Omachonu Ogali wrote: > Sorry, once again, you are incorrect. This option affects TCP responses, Thank you for clarifying that. > I don't think you see the point, his firewall is not letting ICMP in, He didn't have any evidence of port scanning, so barring evidence of complicated answers, simple answers are usually best. However, since I have no way of knowing one way or another, I'll let it go. > ICMP response limiting (this should be renamed) I agree. You may want to send a letter to -current or -hackers, or -arch regarding it. > is kicking in as his machine is > sending responses out to the offending machine. Please, re-read the kernel > source/documentation before misinforming others. Given that this is not my area of expertise, I felt comfortable relying on a previous post I had seen from someone who is in a position to know. Fortunately, you were able to correct my oversight. Now you have to ask yourself how much better things would have been if you had stepped in with the benefit of your knowledge in the first place. :) Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message