Best way to filter "Nachi pings"?

Francis A. Vidal francisv-sender-21ebc3 at irc.dagupan.com
Mon Oct 27 00:22:30 PST 2003


It's also dependent on ICMP time exceeded.

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Percival [mailto:colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk] 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:11 PM
To: Francis A. Vidal; freebsd-security at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Best way to filter "Nachi pings"?

At 16:06 27/10/2003 +0800, Francis A. Vidal wrote:
>Wouldn't it break stuff like traceroute?

   Traceroute is fine -- it uses UDP packets.  Tracert, on the other hand, 
uses ICMP echo request packets, and it suffers.  I'm currently on a 
university network, and when there are connectivity issues (which seems to 
be quite often) I get very annoyed with the ICMP filtering.

Colin Percival



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