Re: (PM) filtering ICMP

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 12:45:11 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Alexander Blauvelt wrote:

> you don't block a port, its not tcp. If my understanding is correct you
> just block ICMP.

Correct, but there are different ICMP types. You have the ability to block
just pings, or just traceroutes, etc... or all of it.

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