From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 23 0: 8:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A035914E13 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 00:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id KAA71502; Sun, 23 May 1999 10:07:23 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:07:22 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: Doug White , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Path MTU discovery on FBSD Message-ID: <19990523100722.A71101@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Anand Buddhdev , Doug White , questions@freebsd.org References: <19990521173815.B1722@africaonline.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 06:41:16PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 06:41:16PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > > > Today one of the firewalls at my upstream provider started to block ICMP. > > This is Bad. Aother respondent mentioned some RFCs, you should forward > those to your ISP and tell them to reconsider since they will start > causing major network for themselves and their customers. If they want to > block just ping, then they can do that (I hope!). > Advice them to run FreeBSD if they can't :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message