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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:16:57 +0800
From:      Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Joseph Gleason <clash@tasam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Minimize ICMP packets
Message-ID:  <3B4C0B79.E91DA46C@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <3B4BFCE8.3EE5720@pacific.net.sg> <008801c109d8$eb40e850$0b2d2d0a@battleship> <3B4C0AB9.8FFC7181@pacific.net.sg> <001b01c109e0$dda90350$0b2d2d0a@battleship>

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You are right .

Joseph Gleason wrote:

> Humm...I beleive net.inet.icmp.icmplim is to limit the rate in packets per
> second of ICMP not the size.  I'm not sure how to limit the size....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong" <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
> To: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 04:13
> Subject: Re: Minimize ICMP packets
>
> > Hi Joseph ;
> >     First of all , thank you very much for your information. I've set
> variable
> > of  icmplim to 30 but this variable  seems does not limit the ICMP packet
> size
> > to max 30 bytes.
> > When I did a ping to my FBSD machine with  packet size of 18024 bytes, it
> still
> > accept the larger ICMP packets rather than to discard .
> >
> > Joseph Gleason wrote:
> >
> > > kernel option:
> > > options         ICMP_BANDLIM
> > >
> > > Does this.  It is default in generic.
> > >
> > > I am not certain of this but I assume sysctl variable
> net.inet.icmp.icmplim
> > > controls the ammount it lets through.  Someone want to confirm or deny
> this?
> > >
> > > Joe Gleason
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Kelvin Ng Chee Hoong" <nchee_hoong@pacific.net.sg>
> > > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 03:14
> > > Subject: Minimize ICMP packets
> > >
> > > > Hi ;
> > > >     I want my FBSD machine to accept ICMP packets (ping)  from source
> > > > anywhere , but limited to number of ICMP packets size and number of
> > > > connection ping concurrently .  Any ICMP packets that beyond the
> > > > criteria will be discarded .
> > > >
> > > >
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