Re: About ping request?

From: Peter Thoenen (pthoenen@uwm.edu)
Date: 05/18/02 

Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 23:52:35 -0500
From: Peter Thoenen <pthoenen@uwm.edu>
To: Ceyhun KIRMIZITAS <ceyhun@ieee.metu.edu.tr>

On a personal side note..this is VERY bad habit.

Lets see:

a) you block all incoming ping requests
b) you want to be able to ping other ppl

Now lets say we all live by your rational.

a) I block all incoming ping requests
b) We all block incoming ping requests
c) Nobody can ping and a wonderful tool is broke.

Also, I dont' remember the exact rfc..but I believe responding to a ping
is REQUIRED (though nobody seems to care).

Don't cut off a tool and expect others to provide it to you though since
you yourself don't allow the service. I scratch your back, you scratch
mine OR in this case..you screw me..i screw you.

cheers,

-Peter

Ceyhun KIRMIZITAS wrote:
> Hello,
> My question is about ping request. I want to block ping request if it
> comes from outside and I want to be able to ping other hosts.In other
> words, I want to block all ping request one way only.
>
> How can I do that? I have been already tried to do something with IPSec,
> TCP/IP filters etc.
> If there are anyone who know how to to do this, please tell me the way.
>
> Thank you
> Ceyhun Kirmizitas
>