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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:55:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Wasp King <waspking2003@yahoo.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?
Message-ID:  <365084.23607.qm@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061130120959.437ada40.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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1. How do I stop others from port scanning a server? 

2. is stopping the response to pinging enough?

3. how to do I stop the server from responding to
pinging?

Running FreeBSD 4.2 and 6.1. 

I changed the /etc/rc.network file to "NO" for
broadcast ping responses, and this did not work (still
responding to ping) when I rebooted:


        case ${icmp_bmcastecho} in
        [Yy][Ee][Ss])
                echo -n ' broadcast ping responses=NO'
                sysctl net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho=1
>/dev/null
                ;;



 
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