From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 22 9:24:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from borja.sarenet.es (borja.sarenet.es [192.148.167.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8453237B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Received: from sarenet.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by borja.sarenet.es (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2MHOYq81573 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:24:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from borjamar@sarenet.es) Message-ID: <3ABA3552.A2860E41@sarenet.es> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:24:34 +0100 From: Borja Marcos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DoS attack - advice needed References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Byrnes wrote: > And, while we're on the subject, who needs ICMP? I haven't found a valid > use for it. You are right. Why bother to know that a packet hasn't got through a network because the size was to big? (to mention one of the typical problems caused by indiscriminate ICMP filtering). Borja. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message