From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 09:52:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16541 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16532 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 09:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA12373; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 11:52:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDADB5.62F940F0@noc.mfn.org>; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:51:59 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDADB5.62F940F0@noc.mfn.org> From: NOC-GFX To: William Woods , "'Doug White'" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Firewall rule.... Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:51:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug - your rule prohibits HIM from sending out pings as well. Wouldn't it be better to have ... deny icmp from any to 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message