Re: DoS attack - advice needed

From: Erick Mechler (emechler@techometer.net)
Date: 03/22/01 

Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:52:02 -0800
From: Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>
To: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>

:: Why? If you have idiots running ping -f yourserver.com from 150 ISPs
:: around the world, you're going to want to filter ICMP. That's what I did
:: awhile back.
::
:: And I haven't found a valid reason to re-enable it.

Maybe this document will give you the reason you're looking for...

  http://users.worldgate.com/~marcs/mtu/

--Erick

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