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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:03:44 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
To:        "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net>
Cc:        Pete Fritchman <petef@netreach.net>, ghandi@mindless.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: firewalls
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906111701370.44102-100000@rapidnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990611171436.3504B-100000@static-petef.netreach.net>

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On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Pete Fritchman wrote:

> You probably just want to deny all icmp to your dialup.
> 
> ipfw add deny icmp from any to any


	Some online games rely on icmp packets to monitor
	your speed to the server (eg. Quake2).  With some
	games this might be a problem.


> 
> --------------------
> [  Pete Fritchman  ]
> [ Systems Engineer ]
> [petef@netreach.net]
> --------------------
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Jason L. Schwab wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:21:27 -0700 (MST)
> > From: "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net>
> > To: ghandi@mindless.com
> > Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: firewalls
> > 
> > Dear all of you,
> > 
> > 	What rules should i add to ipfw to make it to where no one can
> > Denial Of Service or D.o.S. me or any of those kinds of things? but i
> > wanna allow everything else thro. i'm on 56k dialup.. hope to be on
> > 256k once our phone company here gets it up and running... thanks
> > 
> > 
> > 
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