I am using blackhole firewall on solaris 2.6 platform. can I use set command
to selectively disable pinging from Internet to External Interface of
firewall, or is there any other command.
Thanks for your help.
Eessa
>From: "Duquette, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: disabling ping/ICMP
>Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:46:43 -0400
>
>That would depend on your firewall.
>
>I have used ipchains (linux) and set it up to drop icmp so a normal "ping"
>would be dropped. The thing to think about is that this will only stop
>people who ping before they portscan (nmap's default behavior comes to
>mind), and it does not make your host truly invisible. For example it
>would
>not prevent or hide tcp pinging, or portscanning for that matter.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eessa Kamal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 11:31 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: disabling ping/ICMP
> >
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Is it possible to disable pinging (on the firewall machine), from the
> > internet to the extenal interface of the firewall. This is to prevent
> > hacking attempts.
> > Thanks for all your help.
> >
> > Eessa
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