Restricting ICMP

[Ruben de Groot]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 09:56:04AM +0000, Mark typed:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy Farkas" <andyf at speednet.com.au>

<SNIP>

> I am just not very fond of the idea of local users starting ICMP wars over
> the net, using my server :) I have already had an instance where a web-user
> did an excessive ping attack on one of his buddies. And, naturally, I want
> to prevent that. The chmod u-s idea mentioned here, was a good idea. Except
> that, prefereably, I'd like all of wheel to have access, and the rest not.
> And that may be harder to implement.

Not at all.

chmod 4550 /sbin/ping

-Ruben

> 
> Thanks for your answer anyway,
> 
> - Mark
> 
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