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Date:      Wed, 27 May 1998 08:32:03 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: firewall question... 
Message-ID:  <199805271532.IAA07635@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 19:01:49 PDT." <356B740D.7A54CCBE@cybcon.com> 

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>What would be the firewall rule to stop all incomming ICMP packets from
>all?

   You don't want to stop ICMP UNREACH_NEEDFRAG packets else you'll break
Path MTU Discovery which will cause problems when connecting to some hosts.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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