From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 21 9:15:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F2237B41A for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:15:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA14931; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:15:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:15:02 -0500 (EST) From: To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Lee Mark Mercado , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: avoid ping In-Reply-To: <20011220222948.R19330-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > You could configure your firewall to deny those icmp packets... Only if you do it correctly! Otherwise im sending the daemon of clue into your dreams to beat you to a vegatative state. > > how could i avoid being pinged ? i know theres no port for ping and it uses > > icmp - how could i avoid it then ? See http://users.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (816) 464-7780 | Sr. Unix Administrator Work: chris.watson@twa.com | Trans World Airlines, Kansas City, MO Home: scanner@jurai.net | http://www.twa.com ============================================================================= WINDOWS: All our IP belongs to us. GNU/LINUX: Touch our IP, and your IP belongs to us. BSD: Here's our IP, just use it. ============================================================================= ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message