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From: "Mark E. Donaldson" <markee@bandwidthco.com>
Subject: RE: ICMP Rule Problem
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:36:37 -0800
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To: "'David C. Hart'" <dch@TQMcube.com>, 'Iptables Mailing List' <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>

ICMP Type 0 is an echo reply.  Request (ping) is Type 8. 

-----Original Message-----
From: David C. Hart [mailto:dch@TQMcube.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 9:03 AM
To: Iptables Mailing List
Subject: ICMP Rule Problem

Should this not reject echo requests?

-A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 0 -j REJECT --reject-with
icmp-net-prohibited

It doesn't seem to work.

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