Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 22:28:26 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> To: "David S. Geirsson" <andmann@andmann.eu.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: anti-smurf setup Message-ID: <122901c0df96$0ca2faf0$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0105182211380.1272-100000@oracle> <20010518121743.E1096@bong.andmann.eu.org>
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> Actually, this will not stop you from being the victim of smurf attacks, > only stop your machine from being a smurf amplifier. (the actual target is > the spoofed source of the ping sent to the broadcast). Also, most sane > routers block broadcast pings anyway. > fair enough .... doesn't appear its got any side affects & at least might help nobble the mindless ones to some extent though. Any idea why its not in the defailt rc.conf ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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