Re: icmp: echo reply? Am I being attacked?

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Nuno Faria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I haven't noticed any. I think that the original goal of pinging a
> broadcast adress is to know which machines are on that network. When you
> disable it, you just stop "announcing" your presence when someone asks
> "who is on this network?". It is a service or utility that no longer
> exists but is it that useful?

It was never universal anyhow, so it wasn't useful before.  Now it's
not only not useful, but because of smurf attacks, it's harmful.


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