IP Block

Erik Norgaard norgaard at locolomo.org
Sat Jan 22 15:01:19 PST 2005


Lady Amalara wrote:
>   My Question is...how can I block my IP address so others won't see
>   it???

As the other responses suggest, your question is not really clear. I 
guess what you want is to make your host unreachable from the internet. 
You set up firewall rules that block all incoming packets, FreeBSD 
supports a number of different ones, ipfw, ipfilter and packetfilter - 
se the handbook.

Note, once you have a connection - regardless of firewall - you can be 
discovered with arping provided that the pinging host is on the same 
physical network as you. Normally this is not a problem, and doesn't 
really matter if they can't connect anyway.

Cheers, Erik

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