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From: "Peter E. Fry" <pfry@redsword.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Is dropping all ICMP traffic valid?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:32:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD15745.1378.3D1FB1@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021113010119.NUVS26478.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@there>

On 13 Nov 2002 at 1:01, Antony Stone wrote:

> ICMP type 3 code 4 is Source Quench - not very common these days, but
> important to let through if you run systems which use it.

  The only stack I've seen use source quench is the old Mac stack, 
and it sent 'em gratuitously.  Funny -- I can't bloody well remember 
how I found that out.  I must've shared a LAN with a Mac at some 
point.
  I just wanted to point that out, to those who see lots of 
"quenches" on the Internet.  I'd never advocate dropping all ICMP.

[...]

Peter E. Fry



      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-13  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-12 23:25 Is dropping all ICMP traffic valid? alex
2002-11-13  0:36 ` Dax Kelson
2002-11-13  8:21   ` alex
2002-11-13  1:01 ` Antony Stone
2002-11-13  1:32   ` Peter E. Fry [this message]

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