Re: Ok to let all ICMP traffic through firewall?

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/23/05 

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:22:39 +0000 (UTC)

Leythos sez:
> In article <slrndj88th.84j.dima@yellowtail.bmrb.wisc.edu>, dima@
> 127.0.0.1 says...
...
>> > Then, when we're running along for the last few years, blocking all ICMP
>> > inbound and at the firewall, what are we denying ourselves?
>>
>> Your 100 networks are not, strictly speaking, a part of the Internet
>> since they don't comply with the Internet standards.
...
> The net is more than your narrow definition, there is a Use side, a
> Provide side, and a shared side.

Which part of "standard" do you not understand? Here's hint: it
does not mean "flag" in this context.

Dima 

-- 
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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