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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:51:58 +0100
From:      NOC-GFX <sysadmin@mfn.org>
To:        William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>, "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Firewall rule....
Message-ID:  <01BDADB5.62F940F0@noc.mfn.org>

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Doug - your rule prohibits HIM from sending out pings as well.  Wouldn't
it be better to have 

	... deny icmp from any to <staticip> icmptype 8

he did specify he wanted to block all pings _to_ his IP.  This way,
he can still use ping himself...

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@mfn.org

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote:

> Could someone post a ipfw rule to deny all icmp type 8 to my ip? I have a
> static ip.

Heh, you just about wrote it right there.

.. deny icmp from any to any icmptypes 8 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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