More than likely it is not an iptables ruleset but something like
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

cat that file and see if its a 1 or 0. If its 1 thats what msec is doing.

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 09:58 pm, Jeremy Mereness wrote:
> The table on http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php shows that
> Security Level 4 and higher causes ICMP Echo (ping) packets to get
> dropped.
>
> How is this accomplished? Is it in the kernel itself? I thought it might
> have been a pre-defined IPtables rule executed by an msec script, but my
> IPtables are empty. Yet pings still get dropped.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- j

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