Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:33:35 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Question Message-ID: <199912042033.VAA29570@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> If you're too lazy for that, you can patch your kernel source with the
> diff below and rebuild your kernel. Once you've booted the new kernel,
> this command will drop _all_ ICMP traffic:
I think it is probably a very _bad_ idea to drop all ICMP
packets. It will break all kinds of things, e.g. your own
ping requests won't work anymore, traceroute stops working,
you won't receive "port/host unreachable" anymore, i.e.
telnet to some random port will appear to hang instead of
saying "connection refused", etc. etc. etc.
Just my 0.02 Euro...
Regards
Oliver
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