Fedora Users — Re: Questions about ICMP

Daniel B. Thurman writes:

Craig White wrote:

Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:33 PM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Questions about ICMP


On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 15:27 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

Should ICMP packets be allowed both over the
Internet or should it be allowed to pass only in
the local networks?

I have a firewall appliance and trying to make sure
that I am being secured properly.

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disabling icmp echo requests is a great feature for the ultra-paranoid


So... am I to read this as it is a good idea to disable all icmp
requests?  I get a LOT of ICMP requests from the Internet probing
at my ports, which are disabled.  This is a good idea?

As the man said: only if you're ultra-paranoid, and live in a perpetual fearof Internet boogey-men.

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