Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:37:25 +1000 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pinging Firewall Message-ID: <200004192337.JAA25250@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:55:24 %2B0200.
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> Question: In which ways does a firewall handles pings? It is part of the low-level networking code in the kernel. > And, more important, in which phase of the TCP/IP receiving process of the > ping may it be blocked? Ping has nothing to do with TCP. Ping uses ICMP packets. You can block pings using the appropriate rules in ipfw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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