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From: Askar Ali <askarali@beaconet.net>
Subject: Allowing ping
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:32:42 +0500
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hi list,

        I have a very simple question, presently we are blocking icmp 
"ping" on our servers. But as far I can userderstand its not very good 
practice or providing a good security by blocking ping request. see one 
can ping www.xyz.com and get the reply back.

However Before allowing ping "echo-request" I just want to confirm 
whether doing ...

iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT

would be enough or doing some rate limiting would be better?

Any help in this regard  will greatly appreciated.

regards

Askar Ali