Hiya Basil,
On 14/07/2010, at 10:05 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> The question now is: does anyone know which parameter in this Netcomm I need
> to play with - and what are the settings - to stop these responses to pings,
> please?
I'm not familiar with that router firmware but there should be an option in the
firewall settings to block ICMP requests. I'm pretty sure my last Netcomm
ADSL/Router had that option.
> As additional info, I am running Ubuntu Lucid (is there something in Lucid
> which could be set? - although I have never had to fiddle with any settings
> in Ubuntu before so I believe that this is modem firewall hassle, but then I
> am not a network geek :-) ).
You could block ICMP via UFW but, that will not stop your router responding to
the requests, only the Lucid system. And unless you're running a DMZ directly
to said box for some reason, that won't achieve what you want.
As a side note, you may want to see if there is a firmware update available.
Regards,
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