Well, quite frankly, if the T1 is located in front of the firewall (as it
should be ;-)) I can't see how this firewall could prevent that T1 from
being saturated...The best thing to do would, IMHO, be to act on the
source(s) of the ping...
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Lee Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Date: lundi 18 octobre 1999 22:30
> À: linuxisp; expert Mandrake
> Objet: [expert] Disallowing ping requests to a specific machine
>
>
> I have a machine that is getting flooded with ping
> requests to the point
> where it's saturating our T1 line. I don't want to turn off
> pings to the
> entire class C IP block with our firewall, but I'm not sure
>
> 1) how to turn off pings to a single IP address
> 2) if turning off pings at a single IP address will stop our
> T1 from being
> saturated anyway.
>
> Anyone have any advice on how to handle the problem?
>
>
