From owner-freebsd-security Thu Dec 16 6:35:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail02.rapidsite.net (mail02.rapidsite.net [207.158.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8304E14E7B for ; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 06:35:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from usebsd@free.fr) Received: from www.nettoll.com (209.130.51.127) by mail02.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.53) with SMTP id 17073; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:35:00 -0500 (EST) From: "BSDman" To: "retal" , Subject: RE: Attacked By ICMP Packets Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:40:02 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm getting icmped and smurfed twice a week and when it does happen > My LAN is dead ... , i ran a firewall but still it doesnt help... > any suggestions? what firewall are you running? on top of which OS? why is your LAN dead? do you allow inbound icmp packets to pass accross your firewall? generally, you should only allow icmp packets to the firewall (unless you have public addresses in your LAN and you do not NAT them at the firewall). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message