Re: Filtering ICMP (Was Re: SMURF amplifier block list)

[Eric Germann <ekgermann () cctec com>]

At 08:45 PM 4/21/98 +0400, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
> 1) Traceroute is not affected by this filter;

Just a note that if you are using Winders, tracert does use ICMP Echo
Requests, no high port numbers.  FYI.

> 2) ICMP is really blocked at many different places of Internet; we answer 
> every day _no matter you can't ping www.XXX.com, it's becuase they refuse 
> PING's to their network_. 

Still don't make it right.




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