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Re: ICMP firewall info?



None that I've seen or experienced. The ignore_bogus one
in particular screens out invalid icmp packets, and it's
doubtful that your interested in icmp broadcasts (if you
were, you would probably know it).

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:14:18AM -0000, John Conover wrote:
> Any disadvantages to using icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts and
> icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses in firewall rules?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	John
> 
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