Re: Ok to let all ICMP traffic through firewall?

From: Bob Eager (rde42_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 09/23/05


Date: 23 Sep 2005 00:29:30 GMT

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:13:55 UTC, Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:

> > In practice, you need to let a few ICMP messages through, then. For
> > example, source quench and destination unreachable.
>
> Wrong, you don't NEED to allow anything. You may FEEL that you do, but
> we've got almost 100 networks that don't allow ICMP or anything else
> inbound and they work just fine, and we'll not change them.

You're wrong. But that's fine. You just carry on.

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