Re: icmp: echo reply? Am I being attacked?
Nuno Faria <nfaria@fe.up.pt> writes:
> I haven't noticed any. I think that the original goal of pinging a
> broadcast adress is to know which machines are on that network. When you
> disable it, you just stop "announcing" your presence when someone asks
> "who is on this network?". It is a service or utility that no longer
> exists but is it that useful?
It was never universal anyhow, so it wasn't useful before. Now it's
not only not useful, but because of smurf attacks, it's harmful.
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