Re: Stealthing



In article <4f9m48F1i2v68U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Walter Roberson wrote:

- no response if the last router (or firewall) in the chain has been set
to not return icmp responses for unavailable devices [this is
fairly common]

Better said: This is fairly uncommon except at some very lousy big ISPs
(like AOL) and creates various types of problems.

No, it is quite common. For example, the Cisco PIX acts this way
by default, and it is quite uncommon for people to specifically
configure otherwise. In four years of helping people with their
PIX configurations, I don't think I've seen more than one person
with the appropriate command in their configuration.

.



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