From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 15:20:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-158.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F11937B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:20:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7CC4366E94; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:20:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:20:23 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Joel CARNAT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PING filtering Message-ID: <20010310152022.A18340@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010310181643.29D2037B71B@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010310181643.29D2037B71B@hub.freebsd.org>; from joel.carnat@noos.fr on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:16:44PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:16:44PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote: > hello ! >=20 > I noticed that som POP3 server didn't reply to PINGs... > 1- How can I make my machine don't reply to PING so that my upload ratio = (I'm using cable connection) won't explose ? Well, you can easily do this (see other response), but unless you're being ping flooded (a continuous stream of packets) it's not noticeably going to affect your upload ration: ping packets are about 64 bytes each, which will hardly matter. Kris --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qra2Wry0BWjoQKURAn/lAKDkRnVqjvZPwSYcdeLrTI+B4VzGNwCgzWaY LUZtTja2bF6HHI2dycZ19uk= =TCLo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message