[lug] making ping not respond

[Timothy C. Klein]

Am I just confused, or isn't blocking all ICMP packets *way* too broad?  I
thought the firewall HOWTO mentioned that many ICMP packets are
absolutely essential, and your networking will function poorly if they
are all turned off?

Tim

* Richard Fifarek (rfifarek at silug.org) wrote:
> Simple example:
> 
> ipchains -A input -p icmp -j DENY
> ipchains -A input -p igmp -j DENY
> 
> To test, start a ping from a remote machine, apply the rules and see if 
> the ping stops.
> 
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, qqq1one @yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > I thought I my ipchains ruleset was set up to make my box not respond
> > to external pings, but it does anyway.
> > 
> > I'm still trying to figure out how this is done.  Am I totally
> > confused, or can ipchains do this?  TIA.
> > 
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