The default behavior of a vanilla configuration with no conduits and no
outbounds is that no traffic can originate from the outside to the inside
and responses to any traffic that was requested from the inside are allowed
back in EXCEPT for ICMP traffic. You must explicitly allow ICMP (in this
case, just echo replies are needed)

conduit permit icmp any any echo-reply

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Whitehouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 3:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pinging Outside IP Addresses from the Inside: PIX


>From reading the PIX docs, I think I see how I can make my inside servers
"pingable" from the outside.  I'm actually not interested in doing that
however.

But I realized that I don't seem to have this capability from a workstation
inside the network.  IOW I can't seem to ping an outside address from a
workstation on my internal network.

The PIX log seems to show that the response from the outside is blocked
(ICMP?).

1. If I wanted to permit pinging of outside addresses, how would I configure
my PIX.
2. Does giving this capability to inside workstations open any security
holes?

TIA

Harry

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