From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 5:28:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7A737B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 05:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Received: from oracle ([192.168.0.3]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA80783; Fri, 18 May 2001 22:27:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@brizzie.org) Message-ID: <122901c0df96$0ca2faf0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "David S. Geirsson" Cc: References: <20010518121743.E1096@bong.andmann.eu.org> Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:28:26 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, this will not stop you from being the victim of smurf attacks, > only stop your machine from being a smurf amplifier. (the actual target is > the spoofed source of the ping sent to the broadcast). Also, most sane > routers block broadcast pings anyway. > fair enough .... doesn't appear its got any side affects & at least might help nobble the mindless ones to some extent though. Any idea why its not in the defailt rc.conf ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message