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Date:      Mon, 21 Jul 1997 14:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike D Tancsa <mdtancsa@sentex.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   preventing ICMP echo requests to the broadcast address
Message-ID:  <199707211843.OAA29815@granite.sentex.net>

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Is there any easy way to always prevent someone from pinging the
broadcast addresses on my networks other than explicitly filtering
them using ipfw ?  

Also, while on the topic of ipfw, does anyone know how much processor
overhead ipfw adds to the system ?  I suppose the more rules one
adds the worse it gets.  But does anyone have a reasonable guestimate ?

Thanks,

	---Mike



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