Forgive the newbie question (but, well, I am new to all of this).

Whats a good way to see where you are getting pinged from.  I'm asking this
more in regards to my home network, which consists only of a cable modem,
gateway, and various hubs/routers/switches to access the systems in the
apartment.

Thnx

shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Weatherly, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:17 PM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: Ping Replies


This is the most accurate post I have seen yet. Byron is correct. Welcome to
DoS. What you have to remember is that if you block the ICMP traffic at you
firewall, this will only cause you firewall to not respond to it. You will
still get all of the "PING" traffic coming to your firewall, using up you
bandwidth and causing degradation or loss of service. You need to have it
blocked further up the chain. Contact you ISP or Telco and see if they can
work with you to block the traffic either ICMP to you IP or to block ICMP
from a specific host. This can be a lot of work to stop a "simple PING" but
that "simple PING" can be dangerous. For more information on this checkout
www.grc.com, Gibson wrote a very detailed article on what he did when he was
getting a DOS attack.

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Rob Weatherly
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-----Original Message-----
From: Byron Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:58 PM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: Ping Replies

Technically, icmp doesn't use ports, but can be filtered via "types" and
"codes").  But your strategy is a good idea.

I'd do following if I had the choice:

1. block inbound echo requests (and other abused icmp traffic for that
matter... i.e "redirects") for the hosts/segment at the border router.
Or.... 2. ... At the statefull firewall. Or..... 3. at the host using a
personal firewall, or windows filtering

-----Original Message-----
From: Jose Manzano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:04 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: Ping Replies


Can't you just block the port IMCP request go through ... this way they can
ping but will not get replies.  
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Esgro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 11:30 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: RE: Ping Replies

Filter ICMP packets.

-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:37 AM
To: NT 2000 Discussions
Subject: Ping Replies

Hi All,

Is there anyway to prevent Win2K server from replying to a ping,
specifically for an IP address?

Thanks,
Duane


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