On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, 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 > > thankx nick
OK, I got curious since it involves icmp, so it's not done in /etc/inetd.conf, and I didn't know how to do it. All I can say is RTFM, it's right there in the icpm man page that I tried first. Just put this in /etc/sysctl.conf to turn ping replies off: net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all=1 Then run # sysctl -p But after that you should really go back to /etc/sysctl.conf and get rid of it again (hint: it involves running sysctrl again :-). What the hell, -- Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
