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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:26:13 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mipam <mipam@ibb.net>
Cc:        Jaroshenko Serge <jaroshenko@mail.ru>, William Wong <willwong@anime.ca>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: icmptypes 
Message-ID:  <200008220126.TAA42980@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:17:59 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000821131544.7312D-100000@ux1.ibb.net> 
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000821131544.7312D-100000@ux1.ibb.net>  

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In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.1000821131544.7312D-100000@ux1.ibb.net> Mipam writes:
: Okay, however, why not block in all icmp and let yourself be able to ping
: to the outside. With state keeping you'll recieve the reply's.
: Unless of course you wish ppl to ping you initially?

DO NOT BLOCK ALL ICMP PACKETS.

There, I'm done shouting.  Blocking all ICMP packets breaks path mtu
discovery.

Warner


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