From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 4 12:33:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2818B14A2A for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 12:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA29570 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:33:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 21:33:35 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912042033.VAA29570@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Question Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message