From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 14:23:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E3316A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net (mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net [69.12.115.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3F9043F3F for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ) Received: (qmail 93409 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 21:23:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO christabel.starbreaker.net) (matthew@starbreaker.net@209.113.232.92) by mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net - 209.113.232.92 with SMTP; 28 Aug 2003 21:23:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:26:16 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: vkennon Message-ID: <20030828212616.GB80772@christabel.starbreaker.net> References: <000c01c36d88$c2860a10$acd45141@VirginiaKennon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000c01c36d88$c2860a10$acd45141@VirginiaKennon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disable PING command X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:23:39 -0000 On 12:21 Thu 28 Aug , vkennon wrote: Why would you want to disable the ping command? Are you trying to prevent others from pinging you? If so, you need to filter out incoming ICMP packets. There are some other threads on the list pertaining to firewalling; you might want to search them. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "The best way to lose an argument is to throw the first punch."