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Subject: Re: kern/9791: enhancement for netinet/ip_icmp.c to control ping responses 
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ping 8 sends pings, this patch just changes the way the kernel responds
to pings.   While true this can be done in ipfw
like the kernal options  net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho and net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin 
I think the patch is cleaner/faster  

>Synopsis: enhancement for netinet/ip_icmp.c to control ping responses
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
>State-Changed-By: dd
>State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 9 16:25:33 PDT 2001
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>It's probably better to do this in ping(8) rather than the kernel.  Regardless
},
>this change should be discussed prior to being committed.
>
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9791

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