That will just aid your upstream, the ping will still consume your downstream unless you block those at your ISP
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 06:43, Pradeep Kumar stuffed this into my mailbox: > If you allow ICMP traffic and say a bad guy writes a script to send a > continous ping steam with large size packets, that could amount to a DoS > and flood the bandwidth. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Omar Koudsi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:30 PM > To: eko yulianto; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: securing icmp protocol > > > IMHO, ICMP traffic in nature isn't secure. Your best bet would be to block > at your firewall, that's if you are talking about securing ICMP traffic > from the internet. > > > ----------- > Omar Koudsi > IT Architect > Network Security Center > Special Systems Company > http://security.sscjo.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (9626) 5664221 > Fax: (9626) 5681557 > > -----Original Message----- > From: eko yulianto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tue, November 06, 2001 4:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: securing icmp protocol > > > Hello, > Is there anyone can telling me how to make icmp traffic secure? because I > thought if I disallowed all icmp traffic in my network I will get headache > if I have to checking connection when the network problem occur, thank's. > > Eko Yulianto > IT Security > Menara Asia 3rd Floor > Diponegoro 101, Lippo Karawaci > Tangerang, Indonesia > Phone: +62.21.5460666 ext.5335 > Fax: +62.21.5460660 > Post Office: 15810 > E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
