Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:21:42 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: icmp packets - disabling via sysctl, or cisco switch ... ? Message-ID: <44CA0156.6000707@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060728001202.W17979@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728001202.W17979@ganymede.hub.org>
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User Freebsd wrote: > > Two part question here ... > > first part ... is there a way of just disabling icmp by setting a > sysctl, so that a server just doesn't respond to them? > > second part ... is there a way of telling a cisco switch to drop all > icmp packets, preferrably to all but an exception list, but to > everywhere works as well ... Sure, just uninstall TCP/IP. ICMP isn't needed unless you're using TCP/IP.
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