On Tuesday 09 March 2004 07:19, Mitch Oliver wrote: > If all you want to do is ignore ping requests, turn off the "echo" > service, either using redhat-config-services or ntsysv. > > The ping command just sends out an echo request to the server. > Without echo, the server cannot respond to ping requests. > Are you are refering to the xinetd service? If so, this won't have anything to do with ICMP pings. Here is a description from the /etc/xinetd.d/echo control file ... # description: # An xinetd internal service which echo's characters # back to clients. This is the tcp version. Regards, Mike Klinke
