From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 14 14: 9:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500C437B40C for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15ssV5-0005Q9-00; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:08:47 +1300 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:08:47 +1300 (NZDT) From: Juha Saarinen To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: IPFW or IPFILTER? In-Reply-To: <20011014135912.B15422@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 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