hilton de meillon wrote:


Secondly would 'iptables -A INPUT -p IGMP -j REJECT' protect my machine from
remote attacks ?.


This is not the suggested solution.

The suggested  workaround is to recompile your kernel
with 'MULTICASTING' set to OFF.

Then check if you have:

/proc/net/igmp
/proc/net/mcfilter

if both exist and are non-empty you are vulnerable!







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