From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 22:38:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90ADB37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F45143E3B for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:38:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 95831 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2002 05:38:45 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Sep 2002 05:38:45 -0000 Message-ID: <3D8C056B.16DFC7F2@liwing.de> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 07:36:43 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mingo lu Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: stup echo service ? References: <20020920191143.68928.qmail@web14805.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The echo service isn't responsible for ping replies, that is the kernel. You have to configure a firewall of you choice (ipf, ipfw) silently dropping icmp-echo packets. For details on IPFilter see http://www.ipfilter.org/. There you will find some documentation and a real good how-to. For details howto find documentation on IPFirewall see the handbook chapter 10.7, Firewalls. Hope it helps Jens mingo lu wrote: > > hi: > > could i stop echo service on my freebsd machine? > basically i dont want my machine respong "ping" .. > > tia > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message