Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:08:47 +1300 (NZDT) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110151006200.10609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <20011014135912.B15422@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Chad R. Larson wrote: > 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. I don't know how good an idea it would be to accept redirects from all and sundry, but hey... Anyway, I thought it was Internet Control Message Protocol. -- Regards, Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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