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Date:      Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:19:07 -0500 (CDT)
From:      James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Cc:        Pete Fritchman <petef@netreach.net>, "Jason L. Schwab" <jschwab@royal.net>, ghandi@mindless.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: firewalls
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906112217580.17828-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990612004633.A29090@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>

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btw: So does my DSL bridge. We have to wire the MTU. Doesn't seem to hurt
anything else, though. - Jy@

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 05:15:07PM -0400, Pete Fritchman wrote:
> > You probably just want to deny all icmp to your dialup.
> > 
> > ipfw add deny icmp from any to any
> > 
> Don't do it!!!  It will broke Path MTU discovery:
> http://www.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/
> 
> Instead, use ICMP_BANDLIM option:




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