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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:14:26 -0400
From:      "Peter Brezny" <peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
To:        "Peter Jeremy" <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: disable traceroute to my host
Message-ID:  <NFBBKAEAALGGGFKINBLAMEFMCAAA.peter@sysadmin-inc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010627071504.P95583@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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Peter,

What is a good document to get more info on ICMP types?

Thanks.

Peter Brezny
SysAdmin Services Inc. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Peter Jeremy
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:15 PM
To: 3APA3A
Cc: alexus; freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: disable traceroute to my host


On 2001-Jun-26 15:08:13 +0400, 3APA3A <3APA3A@SECURITY.NNOV.RU> wrote:
>deny ICMP from (YOURNETWORK) to any icmptypes 0,3,11 out
>
>0 - to stop windows traceroute and ping
>3 - to stop BSD-style traceroute
>11 - to prevent intermediate router to reply traceroute

Blocking ICMP type 3 will break Path-MTU discovery (which relies on
type 3 code 4).

Peter

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