Re: making a machine non pingable

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 01/11/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:23:20 GMT

In article <Yko%7.71$y4.3432@news.uchicago.edu>,
Xman <imiller@bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>I know it can be done how do I make a unix box unpingable but still allow
>ftp and ssh access?

It depends on the type of Unix. On Linux it can presumably be done using
ipchains or ipfilter. 

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