From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 13 13:46:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02395 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11241; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:46:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: NOC-GFX cc: William Woods , FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Firewall rule.... In-Reply-To: <01BDADB5.62F940F0@noc.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, NOC-GFX wrote: > Doug - your rule prohibits HIM from sending out pings as well. Wouldn't > it be better to have > > ... deny icmp from any to icmptype 8 > > he did specify he wanted to block all pings _to_ his IP. This way, > he can still use ping himself... Ah, okay, thanks! I'm going to print out that ICMP types list since they keep coming up! :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message