From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 22 9:54:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from awww.jeah.net (awww.jeah.net [216.111.239.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C679F37B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by awww.jeah.net (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f2MHsVH12446; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:54:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:54:25 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Byrnes To: Cc: Marc Rogers , Subject: Re: DoS attack - advice needed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Idiots is a subjective term. Anyway. Ill tell you why you can't just *flip > off* ICMP. It's an integral part of IP. http://users.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/ > Alot of people need to take some "Protocol 101" classes. If you dont like > how ICMP works. I dont care. It's your broken network not mine. But the > fact is you can't filter the entire protocol without consequences. If you > choose to ignore said consequences well again it's your broken network not > mine. I dont care. Wow, buddy. Seriously, come on. You don't have to get personal about it. I asked a valid question, and people gave me some valid answers. You, however, seem personally insulted by the fact that I don't want ICMP turned on. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message