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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:21:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM (Vincent Poy)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ICMP Flood Ping
Message-ID:  <199706250021.RAA15717@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970624142841.3300Q-100000@mail.MCESTATE.COM> from "Vincent Poy" at Jun 24, 97 02:30:06 pm

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Vincent Poy wrote:
> 
> Greetings folks,
> 
> 	Assuming that one can find the source address of the ICMP Flood
> ping coming to the FreeBSD box, is there a way one can kill the ICMP
> request on the receiving FreeBSD box?  Thanks.
> 

	you can reject the host or network that is flooding you
	man route(8) example: 

		route add -net 111.222.333.0 127.0.0.1 -reject

	-blackhole is another option
jmb



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