Dumb question for 97/07/16 (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:21:53 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Larry Vaden shaped the electrons to say...
>How does one implement ICMP-Unreachable-Host messages in a Portmaster 2|3
>running >= ComOs 3.5 for currently unassigned addresses in the assigned IP
>pool?

There is no way to do this to my knowledge. We quietely discard the
packets with no ICMP message. I believe this is deliberate to prevent
attacks which attempt to map out your IP pools.

-MZ

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