Kacheong Poon writes: > Note that I am *not* saying that increasing the ICMP return > byte size is not good. But I don't think the suggestion on > using rate is good enough. The bandwidth consumed is the > number ICMP messages sent per second (rate) times the ICMP > packet size. To some sys admins, just controlling the rate is > not good enough for them to handle DoS situation.
The max size is already set by the RFCs. You don't make your reply larger than 576 octets. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
