From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 14 13:59:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC31237B401 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:59:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15482 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:59:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:59:12 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <20011014135912.B15422@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <20011014180756.A17546@adv.devet.org> <200110141616.f9EGG5x37636@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110141616.f9EGG5x37636@lurza.secnetix.de>; from olli@secnetix.de on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:16:05PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 06:16:05PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > That's bad, because you usually want to see other types of > ICMP replies, too, such as TTL exceeded, host unreachable, > communication prohibited etc. In fact, to be a full-class citizen of an IP network, you're =supposed= to process ICMP. That's how you gete routing redirects and a bunch of other proper/useful things. That's why it's called the IP =management= protocol. Unfortunately, DOS attacks and the like have made some people paranoid. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message