On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 18:23 +1300, John Carter wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > > Oh, and as an aside; please allow your network edge devices to respond > > to ping. It's very difficult telling the difference between an > > ISP-link failure (i.e. a non-IP network) and a firewall failure if the > > damn firewall won't respond to ping when everything is working > > normally ... > > I _love_ ping and never willingly harm my very very helpful little > friend. > > Alas... the "out of the box" defaults for more and more things are > getting quite hostile. > > Sigh!
rfc 1122 3.2.2.6 "Every host MUST implement an ICMP Echo server function that receives Echo Requests and sends corresponding Echo Replies." Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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