Depending on which router you are using, you should be able to block it at
an IP level.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, quite frankly, if the T1 is located in front of the firewall (as it
> should be ;-)) I can't see how this firewall could prevent that T1 from
> being saturated...The best thing to do would, IMHO, be to act on the
> source(s) of the ping...
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De: Lee Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Date: lundi 18 octobre 1999 22:30
> > �: linuxisp; expert Mandrake
> > Objet: [expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine
> >
> >
> > I have a machine that is getting flooded with ping
> > requests to the point
> > where it's saturating our T1 line. I don't want to turn off
> > pings to the
> > entire class C IP block with our firewall, but I'm not sure
> >
> > 1) how to turn off pings to a single IP address
> > 2) if turning off pings at a single IP address will stop our
> > T1 from being
> > saturated anyway.
> >
> > Anyone have any advice on how to handle the problem?
> >
> >
