----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Moen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] ICMP


> Quoting Aris  Santillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > what is
> >
> > Apr  4 23:23:31 localhost kernel: 190.200.1.11 sent an invalid ICMP
> > error to a broadcast
>
> Tired about seeing grumbling about invalid ICMP packets?  Put
> "net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses=1" into /etc/sysctl.conf .

this will only prevent the kernel logging of warning errors to your log file
but still the attacker is flooding your network segment...  there are lots
of good routers by default filtering this out.. for example for cisco
router,  ip directed-broadcast is off by default to prevent this kind of
flood attack... check your router's manual how to drop this kind of illegal
broadcast packets...

fooler.


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