On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:24:25PM -0700, Nick wrote: > how do you stop linux from replying to pings like > > microsoft does. you can't ping www.microsoft.com or www.msn.com
Too bad you can still get to their web site(s). I agree with joeyh that disabling pings is silly and fairly unfriendly to the net. However, there are two ways to do it that I can think of: 1) RTFM ipchains (for 2.2.x kernels) or iptables 2) Look through /proc/sys/net/ipv4 and learn about sysctl. Deliberately vague, -- Nathan E Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://incanus.net/~nnorman
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