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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 1997 08:48:03 +0100
From:      Anthony Barlow <tony@warp.co.uk>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewalling large ICMP packets..
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970410084803.0068a638@mail.warp.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970408145037.1399K-100000@localhost>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408153433.922A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>

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At 14:51 08-04-97 -0700, Doug White wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to do this in FreeBSD?
>
>Maybe, using ipfw or ipfilter.  
>
>As a note, FreeBSD is immune to the Death Ping (as reported).. I suspect
>you are tyring to save some susceptable machines in your network from
>disaster :)

That's one of the mail reasons why we are changing our servers over from
Linux 1.2.13 to FreeBSD.2.2.1-RELEASE. We're using a firewall on all our
enrty points to block these and other spoof attempts.

Regards,
Anthony




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