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Subject: Re: ipfw And ping
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On 12/01/2011 08:56 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>>  From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Thu Dec  1 17:27:19 2011
>> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:25:04 -0600
>> From: Tim Daneliuk<tundra@tundraware.com>
>> To: FreeBSD Mailing List<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>> Subject: ipfw And ping
>>
>> I have a fairly restrictive ipfw setup on  a FBSD 8.2-STABLE machine.
>> Pings were not getting through so I added this near the top
>> of the rule set:
>>
>>     #####
>>     # Allow icmp
>>     #####
>>
>>     ${FWCMD} add allow icmp from any to any
>>
>>
>> It does work but, two questions:
>>
>> 1) Is there a better way?
>> 2) Will this cause harm or otherwise expose the server to some vulnerability?
>
> FIRST question: Are you trying to make _outgoing_ ping work, or let the
> outside  world 'ping' internal machines on your network?  What you wrote
> is not clear on this point.

Both.