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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 10:08:47 +1300 (NZDT)
From:      Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: IPFW or IPFILTER?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110151006200.10609-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011014135912.B15422@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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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.

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Regards,


Juha


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